Posted on 04/04/2024 11:49:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden’s administration announced its plan on Thursday to protect bureaucrats from being fired by a potential second Trump administration.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) finalized a rule that protects employees in the civil service by preventing the removal of their status and protections involuntarily, according to a press release. Under the new rule, an administration wishing to shift federal employees to a new category making them easier to fire would have to go through an elongated process, a move meant to be more time-consuming for a future president, Politico reported.
“Career federal employees deliver critical services for Americans in every community,” OPM Director Kiran Ahuja said in a press release. “This final rule honors our 2.2 million career civil servants, helping ensure that people are hired and fired based on merit and that they can carry out their duties based on their expertise and not political loyalty. The Biden-Harris Administration is deeply committed to the federal workforce, as these professionals are vital to our national security, our health, our economic prosperity, and much more.”
The rule is widely viewed as a response to an executive order signed in 2020 by former President Donald Trump, Politico reported. The executive order targeted federal workers, removing protections from some employees and make it easier for the president to hire and fire them.
The executive order took some entrenched bureaucrats “in positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character” and put them in a different category considered “Schedule F,” making them easier to fire.
The OPM rule quotes this language directly, even referencing “Schedule F.”
The final rule advances “policy goals,” the press release states, by “clarifying that the phrase ‘confidential, policy determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating’ positions—a term of art to describe positions that lack civil service protections—means noncareer, political appointments. This rule prevents that exception from being misapplied to career civil servants.”
“Schedule F,” the OPM press release stated, would have rid employees of their civil service protections which ensure that employment decisions are “based on merit, not political considerations. ”
The final rule is set to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, the press release stated.
“This rule is about making sure the American public can continue to count on federal workers to apply their skills and expertise in carrying out their jobs, no matter their personal political beliefs,” OPM Deputy Director Rob Shriver told reporters, according to Politico.
In addition to Trump’s executive order, conservatives have pushed the importance of remaking the federal bureaucracy, and Trump allies have indicated it could be a key priority in a second term. In 2023, a majority of political donations made by federal employees went to President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis found.
Ok, don’t fire them doesn’t mean DON’T pay them!
Job for life and your family’s life all the money and pension and you don’t have to work for it
“Waiting for the Republican response.
The opposition party. The party of small government. The party of less intrusive rules and regulations. The party of fiscal conservatism. The party of law and order. The party of traditional values...”
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The party who talks a good game, then sinks their own!
The party who ALWAYS wants to be a vocal minority party afraid to SOLVE any REAL issues!
The party of pussies!
It would take the fed-gov to long to construct. Luckily we have thousands of slightly used FEMA trailers which can be set up in a week.
IMO-—THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OVER-EMPLOYED BY AT LEAST 39%-—and 50% would NOT surprise me.
WHOLE sectors & departments need to be ended.
If Trump is somehow elected, what happened from 2017-2021 will be as a summer breeze compared to the hurricane of resistance that lies ahead. NATO claiming the right to impose supply to Ukraine as long as Trump is in office was the first shot. Now this.
Their goal is to have Trump alone and isolated in the White House, with no one in the Executive Branch willing to carry out his orders, backed up by a woke military.
I haven’t heard any discussion of a way around this.
Reverse the rule day 1 and fire them all.
Any rule *resident Bidet can make, Trump can unmake in the first minutes of his Presidency.
Military refusing to carry out orders is mutiny.
Civilians refusing to carry out orders is insubordination.
Both can be removed from office.............
So, don’t fire anyone. Just take funding away, across the board, for positions.
The Resistance. It blocked Trump the first time.
“If we get Senate and House majorities and a GOP POTUS we need to legislate a two year suspension of all civil service job protections of any kind.”
That’s really funny. In 2017 and 2018, the GOP controlled the POTUS and both houses of Congress. Trump tried to do the job for which he was elected, and Congress did everything it could to undermine his agenda.
BUYING more votes. Government is so large now that the workers can vote in people that will give them huge comfy lives.
Trump should transfer them to the mail room in an abandoned warehouse. All of them.
Isn’t this new democrat rule one that Trump can reverse when he gets into office?
“Both can be removed from office”
Yes - but by whom? I believe Trump will be unable to carry out any of the functions of his office because of organized resistance. They are already planning this in the open.
Yes, it’s just an XO...............
“ Just take funding away, across the board, for positions.”
That’s up to Congress, not the President - and since the GOP Congress 2017-2019 was the heart of the resistance to Trump’s agenda, what reason is there now to expect anything different?
For Trump to govern and keep his promises, he will have to color outside the lines, and I hope he knows it.
They could get get one of their judges to rule the same thing, or make them hire the illegals.
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