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  With all the chaos that has pervaded the federal bureaucracy in Trump’s second term, some very basic MAGA “reforms” may have escaped attention. The best known is the   reimposition   of the so-called   Schedule F , an initiative adopted late in the first Trump administration (and promptly revoked by Joe Biden) that reclassified around 50,000 civil service positions into political appointments. But as Don Moynihan   explains , that initiative just makes it easier to fire “deep state” bureaucrats who haven’t bent the knee to the new regime. A broader hiring initiative has just been announced by the Office of Personnel Management, which is basically the federal government’s HR agency. Called the   Merit Hiring Plan   (reflecting the wording of the Trump executive order that mandated it), the initiative has many interlocking provisions aimed at simplifying and, well, politicizing federal hiring practices, partly to kill, bury, exhume, and kill again anyt...

  Habiba Soliman moved to the U.S. hoping to study medicine. Then her father Mohamed Soliman was charged with a hate crime in an attack aimed at peaceful Jewish demonstrators. Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update   Airlines Update She moved to the United States with a dream of studying medicine to transform lives. Then her father was charged with attempting to take them in connection with a  fiery assault on pro-Jewish protesters  in Boulder, Colorado. Now Habiba Soliman, daughter of Boulder attack suspect  Mohamed Sabry Soliman , faces deportation along with the rest of her family.   The family, originally from Egypt, moved to the U.S. from Kuwait. Habiba Soliman recently graduated from high school, but her aspirations were upended when her 45-year-old father was charged wi...