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Eghad, Congress can amend/repeal those civil service regs at any time (with presidential signature or overriden veto, of course). The circumstances which would be amenable to the elimination of entire bureaus/departments/agencies would be just as amenable to the rewrite or repeal of civil service regs. Once again, there is no CONSTITUTIONAL right to continuing fderal employment - only statutory, an entirely different item altogether.
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They could, but why would they? If the ATF was eliminated, those people would still be needed in whatever agency or agencies would take over the ATF's responsibilities. Why go through the hassle of drawn out legal battles and negative impact on over two million Federal workers just so that you can more easily fire 4000 or so "good" workers that are already trained to do their jobs?