Yahoo: Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
AOL: What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
Augusta Free Press: Trump makes second stab at reworking Schedule F, reviving political spoils system
Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive order in which he is attempting to reclassify tens of thousands of federal ...
Trump makes second stab at reworking Schedule F, reviving political spoils system
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service ...
KRDO: What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
The Virginian-Pilot: Presidential history: The presidential spoils system — gone but not forgotten
Define spoils. spoils synonyms, spoils pronunciation, spoils translation, English dictionary definition of spoils. ) v. spoiled or spoilt ) , spoil ing, spoils v. tr. 1. a. To impair or destroy the quality or value of; ruin: spoiled the dish by adding too much salt.
SYNONYMY NOTE: spoil (now, more commonly, spoils) refers to any property, territory, etc. taken in war by the conqueror; pillage suggests violence and destructiveness in the taking of spoils; plunder is equivalent to pillage but also applies to property taken by bandits, highwaymen, etc.; booty 1 suggests plunder taken by a band or gang, to be ...