Posted on 07/30/2022 6:01:34 AM PDT by cotton1706
A group of five conservative Republicans has introduced legislation to make the federal government an at-will employer, eviscerating civil service protections, chilling whistleblower activity and abolishing the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Mary Miller, R-Ill., Troy Nehls, R-Texas, Bob Good, R-Va., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., on Thursday introduced the Public Service Reform Act (H.R. 8550), which would make federal workers at-will employees and strip them of many of the avenues currently at their disposal to appeal adverse personnel actions. It would abolish the MSPB, sending all complaints of whistleblower retaliation to the Office of Special Counsel, albeit only for 14 days, after which all appeals would go directly to federal appellate courts.
“Most career civil servants do their jobs faithfully day in and day out, but there are still too many federal employees actively undermining America through their blatant contempt for our nation, the rule of law, and the American people,” Roy said in a statement. “That is because policies meant to insulate the government from politics have instead created a dense web of red tape that rewards laziness and noncompliance and enables hostile partisans to entrench themselves within federal agencies. Former President Trump is absolutely right about this: there needs to be a reckoning, and bureaucrats actually need to be fireable.”
Although the bill stands nearly zero chance of passing in the current Congress, experts say that it, combined with recent news that conservative political operatives with Trump’s endorsement have devised plans to revive Schedule F, a proposal to strip the civil service protections from tens of thousands of federal employees in “policy-related” positions, indicates the civil service system as we have known it for the last 150 years will be under attack under the next Republican administration.
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They see Executive employees as a check to Executive power when a Republican is in office. And when a Democrat is in office, as grease to speed the wheels of liberal policy/agenda items.
And their little fiefdoms are on the chopping block. We need mass firings of these unelected legislators. And then move the agencies OUT of Washington (or eliminate them completely).
In Trump’s 2nd administration in 2025, this needs to be one of the first bills passed. Drain the Swamp. Fire tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats.
DOA
Buy it’s useful for outting people still getting away with pretending to be MAGA.
Note to anyone really wanting to set the cat among the pigeons: to make your point really hit home, show people the kind of health insurance choices public employees are offered...
Nice proposal, but how about we start first with requiring our next President (hopefully Trump) to repeal the executive order allowing federal employee unions (I believe it was a JFK executive order). The government unions make exorbitant contributions to democrats, who in turn reward them with grossly outrageous pay increases and benefits. Cut off the head of the snake. No more federal unions and stop abusing taxpayers with this scam. When will republicans start playing hardball and hit the democrats where it hurts the most, in the pocketbook.
We need mass firings of these unelected legislators.
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If we can’t curtail the scope and power of the administrative state the country will cease to be a republic.
We need to establish a litmus test for people we vote for. If a candidate won’t commit to specific actions to shrink the federal behemoth there’s no point in voting for them.
Good, but not enough. Ban federal employee unions whose interests are opposite the taxpayer’s and the nation’s.
“Tens”? You think way too small.
This bill is a bridge too far. And so it has no hope of passing. Before civil service, the patronage system ruled. You got that government meat inspector job (or whatever) not because of merit, but because you knew somebody. Civil service was designed to address this problem.
The real problem - and it’s a big problem - is that it has become too difficult to fire poor government employees. Incompetent or lazy workers are just shuffled off to some side office where they continue to draw full pay. That’s the thing that desperately needs to be fixed.
With all the “protections” in place now it is virtually impossible to fire a bum employee.
Does this mean the employees at the VA will actually have to ‘serve’ the veterans instead of acting like theyre offended at the very idea ???
The left ALWAYS hides behind the Civil Rights Act; they will claim membership in a protected category (minority, female, homosexual) to avoid being fired(this is what they do now to get away with extremely poor performance / disobedience); if you don’t revoke the CRA this will only make it easy to fire the few conservatives left in government. Conservatives never try to hide behind this, even if they are in a protected class; liberals lawyer up as soon as they think they will be fired and counter-sue for discrimination.
Uh, the system we have now is not the system we had pre-Carter. While there have always been problems, the creation of the Senior Executive Service was a huge step towards the present mess. It created a special class of suck-up swamp servants who run the whole place.
Well, it needs to be done, but this is all for show at this point in time. Perhaps they will do it for real if they win big in the midterms. But I won’t hold my breath.
Even vermin like FDR though public service unions should be outlawed.
If you do that, it’s back to the spoils system.
The problem isn’t the rank and file - the issue there is that there are a lot of lazy entrenched workers - but the managers and execs. particularly inside the beltway.
A better solution would be to limit the number of federal workers who could be employeed within 150 miles of DC, with another limit on the number who could be employed within 150 miles of a coastline. (Exception to that rule for naval personnel serving on board ships). Limits would be by percentage and agency.
There are so many useless Federal employees that you could fire tens of thousands of them and the average person would never even notice.
I agree 100%.
“Most career civil servants do their jobs faithfully day in and day out”.
I agree with this, but it’s misleading. On the ground I would say it is right around 50%. Some are competent but simply grifters that work these systems like professional cons. I would put that number around 30% of that 50%.
That said, I think we need to trim the fed Gov by around 90% if we ever hope to get right again.
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