By Courtney Rozen and Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior career federal employees, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

The rule, if finalized, would follow Trump’s April proposal to change employment standards for federal workers and build on a series of actions by the administration to minimize dissent across the government.

Specifically, the documents showed the rule would remove legal protections that prohibit U.S. government agencies from retaliating against employees who accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the law or wasting funds.

The Trump administration said in a statement that the employees would not be stripp

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