The acting head of the Office of Personnel Management, the government's HR department, has instructed each agency to arbitrarily fire all employees who have been newly hired or recently started a new role (known as probationary employees). This action unlawfully encroaches on both the power of Congress (which established protections for career civil servants) and agencies themselves to manage their own workforce. It undermines effective government by firing employees without any assessment of merit or performance, endangering Americans by undermining the quality of the services that these employees provide - everything from keeping our food and medicine safe, to securing our borders, to improving our communities.