Merit-Based Hiring Is Back; Investigators Now Being Investigated

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Government, Education

4.9 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Merit-based hiring is making a comeback. The federal government has now officially dropped a policy going back over 40 years that, until now, held that tests to ensure government employees were qualified for their jobs were discriminatory. The shift in policy aims to ensure the government is now hiring based on skill.

And in other news, a special counsel investigation has now been opened into former special counsel Jack Smith. This happens as the Trump administration moves to investigate key figures involved in the disproven Trump–Russia narrative going back to the 2016 election.

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0:00.0	Merit-based hiring is making a comeback.
0:03.0	The federal government has now officially dropped a policy going back over 40 years,
0:07.5	which, until now, held the test to ensure government employees were qualified for their jobs, were racist.
0:14.0	And speaking of government employees, federal employees who were involved in the investigations
0:19.0	that President Donald Trump, going back to to 2016 are now finding themselves under investigation.
0:24.6	And this includes former special counsel Jack Smith.
0:28.6	Meanwhile, the FBI has launched a new office to monitor the Chinese Communist Party's subversion of New Zealand.
0:35.6	Yes, the country of New Zealand. I'll be deep diving
0:39.5	into why this is actually important for the United States. I'll be talking about these topics and
0:45.2	more today. I'm the Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening
0:50.0	to Crossroads. Welcome to Crossroads.
0:58.4	Welcome to Crossroads. The show by The Epic Times, one of America's largest independent newspapers that brings
1:04.2	you insights beyond the headlines.
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1:11.4	Get updates when the next one is. Now look, merit-based hiring. Imagine that hiring people based on skill.
1:17.5	It's making a comeback. And the federal government has now officially dropped a policy going back
1:24.5	over 40 years, which until now held that tests to ensure that government
1:29.3	employees are actually qualified for their jobs are racist. And that's no longer the determination.
1:36.3	Now they're saying, well, you just can't hire people who are not qualified. The shift in policy
1:42.3	aims to ensure that government is hiring based on skill,
1:46.9	not by the color of your skin. Post-Millennial said this. They said on Friday, the Civil Rights
1:52.4	Division of the Department of Justice put an end to a career, a Carter administration decree
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