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  • President Trump is facing bipartisan backlash after posting a racist video on social media depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as primates.

  • Speaking to ABC News Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters said she wasn't surprised by the post.

  • This is who he is.

  • We know who he is.

  • And he's a racist.

  • I've been one, uh, from way back when he worked with his father,

  • uh, when they excluded people of color from being able to lease their apartments.

  • Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, also called the video racist.

  • Trump told reporters Friday that he hadn't seen the entire video and would not apologize.

  • The administration initially defended the post before deleting it.

  • The Office of Personnel Management has issued a final rule giving President Trump the authority to reclassify some federal workers as at-will employees,

  • fireable for any reason.

  • NPR's Andrea Shoe reports it's a change that Trump has pushed for since the end of his first term.

  • The new rule gives President Trump the power to move federal employees in, quote,