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.
There were several Obama EO’s that Trump tried to overturn but was denied.
<>No president can bind a future president by an executive order.<>
I recall a federal judge or two that prevented PDJT from rescinding an illegal Obama exec order. IIRC it was DACA.
But, the Constitution is, without doubt, on our side.
Per Article II, the President IS the executive branch.
I’m certain that Judge Clarence Thomas would delight in ruling this obvious fact.
If Trumps does not fire all of the top management(and those with a record of being corrupt) at the DOJ then he will get nowhere in restoring justice for all.
These departments are all part of the executive branch so I am not so sure that even congress can stop the president from firing someone.
Move the offices to Nome, AK. You get a Quonset hut, land phone, fax, no internet, a cot and a desk. Self vacating at that point.
Yes, but 1-8 votes on the Court do not carry the day.
That's what I've been telling people. He'll be a lame duck on day one.
But you're right. Joe Biden had four years to pick his officers in the military.
And none of the grunts are from the heartland. Most of them are from inner cities/immigrants now.
It used to be that most of them are from the South/Midwest.
Best campaign ad ever. They know it’s inevitable.
Indeed. Even though the rule has a couple of clauses stating no subsequent president, especially a fascist, war-mongering, black-hating, LGBTQ murdering nazi, like Donald Trump, may undo the rule.
You don’t have to fire them, just reassign their talents to Guam and Diego Garcia.
Fed workers at SES grade or up can be moved to any job anywhere the government decides.
After being elected, Trump should setup a new DEI agency, build a bunch of circus tents in Hobbs NM to house the new agency and send the awoke and unwanted SESers to man the new agency.
So they admit they’re gonna lose?
Where is that Argentine chain saw? Maybe we could learn something from our Brothers down South!
Just change their healthcare plans to Obamacare.
Pay them not to come to work. They only make things worse when they do. Require an agreement that the money only flows if they don’t get another job. Monitor their SSNs to enforce it.
That was my first thought as well.
How about this? The Department of Education has 4,400 employees.
There employees are protected by the Civil Service Administration.
Trump abolishes the Department of Education and offers all
DOE
Employees the opportunity to be inducted into the Armed Services.
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...“
I remember that party. Whatever happened to it??
Seems like the Socialists are getting a little NERVOUS about the upcoming election! ;)
Good! I’ve been both a State and a Federal Worker Bee. I can attest that the systems are FULL of dead weight. I was probably Dead Weight myself in some of the ‘made up’ jobs I held at various times. ;)
Don’t even get me STARTED on Year-End ‘Budgeting.’ Use it or lose it, Baby! Do NOT trim any FAT!
Half the desks in federal bureaucrat offices are empty. My guess is that they’re dead or incapacitated from the kung-flu shots. Give it another year.
For the perusal of all on this thread, EOs have sunset dates (1 year), and bidAn has renewed many of Trump's EOs, and then renewed the renewals. Including 13848, foreign interference in a domestic election. Here is just one:
Works for me.😁
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