The incoming deputy chief of staff told lawmakers that early action would include directives to give President-elect Donald J. Trump more control over federal workers, as well as on energy and immigration.

President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.

President-elect Donald Trump is planning a string of executive orders during his first days in office, including one to strip job protections from career civil servants.

The president signed an executive order hours after taking office that could eventually make it easier to fire thousands of civil servants.