The White House’s new federal hiring guidelines, issued last week, reek of a loyalty test, according to Axios.

It’s the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is moving to fully politicize the civil service—bulldozing more than a century of legal protections and norms meant to keep career government work nonpartisan.

Notably, these new tests aren’t just for appointees or senior officials, either. Engineers, nurses, lawyers, surgeons—even janitors—just about anyone interviewing for a job within the federal government will now be asked to prove their patriotism and show they support President Donald Trump’s agenda before they’re allowed to serve.

According to Axios, one of the mandatory questions applicants must answer, in 200 words or fewer:

How would you help advance the Presi

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