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New US civil service rules look to prevent a future Trump purge of federal workers
Independent UK via MSN ^ | 04 04 2024 | Andrew Feinberg

Posted on 04/05/2024 4:47:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Biden administration has finalized a new set of regulations to prevent a future president from initiating a wholesale purge of the US civil service along the lines of what former president Donald Trump envisioned during the final months of his term.

The new rules, published in the Federal Register on Thursday and which would go into effect on 9 May, are meant to provide the 2.2 million nonpartisan civil servants who staff the executive branch with more defined protections that cannot be easily stripped away by presidential fiat.

They were inspired by an October 2020 executive order issued by Mr Trump which created a new category of federal employee known as “Schedule F” which encompassed anyone working in what the order described as “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions” — a classification that had generally been reserved for the political appointees who come and go with each change in administration.

According to experts, this could have encompassed most of the non-partisan experts — scientists, doctors, lawyers, economists — who are supposed to advise and inform policymakers in a way that is fact-driven and devoid of politics. The order stripped most civil service protections from these employees, allowing them to be fired without cause.

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KEYWORDS: congress; federalworkers; trump
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To: yesthatjallen
Presidential fiats can be un-fiatted by the next incoming president. As it was so eloquently stated before, “¡Afuera!
41 posted on 04/05/2024 8:02:56 AM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: Ann Archy

Another stupid idea.

Don’t have to fire. Just rotate offices to different cities — to spread the Fed $$ around the nation. Losers will not move and recipient cities (all red, of course) will compete to get the handouts.

2024, Dept of Ed to some place in Utah. In 2026, over to Ar. Reboot.
The chaff will quit.


42 posted on 04/05/2024 8:12:33 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Fai Mao

“Not Nome, Wake or Midway Island.”

all three would be good ... i don’t think Nome could handle the full load anyway :-)


43 posted on 04/05/2024 8:13:23 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: frogjerk

“Think Dreamers”

Correct, but during his first term, Republicans also were tying Trump’s hands.

Now, Trump will have more experience, probably more support from more Republicans, and a much larger mandate from the American people.


44 posted on 04/05/2024 8:19:15 AM PDT by odawg
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To: yesthatjallen

This is how America is destroyed. One stupid law or policy at a time.

No one should have job protections like this. No one.


45 posted on 04/05/2024 8:20:58 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Rats, Rinos, Uniparty wins, everyone loses. Democrats can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: ABStrauss

Fine,just shoot them instead.👍


46 posted on 04/05/2024 8:36:35 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: yesthatjallen

are meant to provide the 2.2 million nonpartisan civil servants who staff the executive branch with more defined protections


“Non Partisan?” Riiiiigggghhhhhttttt!


47 posted on 04/05/2024 8:47:26 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Boomer

Things can, and will, change overnight. The Deep State is built upon sand, support will vanish overnight. The French Aristocracy were rich and powerful, they paided no taxes, they had the ear of the King. They had the wealth, lived in splendor—But all was lost in a twinkling of an eye. The good and the bad, innocent and guilty, all lost their heads.


48 posted on 04/05/2024 8:57:09 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. )
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To: yesthatjallen

New set of regulations will be stuffed up your a##. Hoping for a purge of momentous proportions


49 posted on 04/05/2024 9:12:08 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Ann Archy

Satan has a short time to reap havoc, and seems to be in a hurry. 😉


50 posted on 04/05/2024 10:06:34 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. For Greater Glory. HIS. ;)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“That’s the story.
So far...”

~~~~~~~

Yup. Pretty much.
It has been most frustrating for far too many, for far too long.
I think matters are coming to a head, at long last, though.


51 posted on 04/05/2024 10:45:20 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: yesthatjallen

As mentioned by another poster yesterday, anything Biden can do, Trump can undo.


52 posted on 04/05/2024 10:49:23 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Gil4

Civil Service was supposed to be a meritocracy I worked for the state of Cal for 28 years and I don’t know whether to be angry or just laugh it off.


53 posted on 04/05/2024 11:42:44 AM PDT by coalminersson (since )
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To: spincaster

Will do.


54 posted on 04/05/2024 1:32:14 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: yesthatjallen

Of course. The DEMS have worked for years to employee “friendlies” only in government jobs. They aren’t going to give it up either.


55 posted on 04/05/2024 1:38:45 PM PDT by Toespi ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

Very easy to terminate a feral employee. You simply abolish the position. It is just a rule and rules can be changed at will by the sitting president.


56 posted on 04/05/2024 2:17:31 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: yesthatjallen

Wasn’t this a wave of the hand move by Biden?

Seems like a wave of Trump’s will end it, just like Biden
did some of Trump’s immigration rules.


57 posted on 04/05/2024 5:42:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

It does feel like the destruction of the “American Empire” is close and deliberate.


58 posted on 04/05/2024 7:10:38 PM PDT by Boomer (If the Rats, Rinos, Uniparty wins, everyone loses. Democrats can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: yesthatjallen

When the real President
is inaugurated in 2025 or before just like he was supposed to be in 2021
Then.
This and the rest of the biden sham wow acting president puppet antics will be
‘Serve Pro’ ed as in made past tense just like it never happened except for the damage left behind.
We will have to clean that up including all swamp feral assisters.


59 posted on 04/06/2024 6:12:37 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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