Posted on 04/07/2024 10:58:09 AM PDT by bitt
A new rule adopted by the Office of Personnel Management boosts protections for government employees, making it harder to fire them.
The Biden administration has issued a new rule that makes it harder to fire government employees in an apparent bid to thwart former President Donald Trump’s pledge to fire “rogue bureaucrats” and radically reshape the federal workforce.
The new rule, which bolsters job protections for career civil servants, was issued on April 4 by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which hinted in a statement that it’s targeting a promised move by a potential second Trump presidency to “drain the swamp and root out the deep state” by making it easier to fire government workers.
“In the first week of the Biden-Harris Administration, President Biden revoked an Executive Order issued by the previous Administration that risked altering our country’s long-standing merit-based civil service system, by creating new excepted service schedule, known as ‘Schedule F,’ and directing agencies to move potentially large swathes of career employees into this new excepted service status,” OPM said in the statement.
This is in reference to a Trump-era executive order issued in 2020 that allowed tens of thousands of the 2.2 million federal employees to be reclassified as political appointees, making it easier to fire them.
‘Root Out the Deep State’
Roughly 4,000 federal employees are now considered political appointees, who typically change with each administration, with the revival of a Schedule F potentially increasing that more than tenfold. President Joe Biden nixed the Schedule F order when he took office, while President Trump said in mid-2022 that he would try to revive the concept in one form or another.
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Not sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Why do we even bother to have a Legislative Branch if a POTUS is doing their job?
These are policy making positions so must be under the elected president’s authority. This is pretty outrageous to assert rules making political change, change by democratic process, impossible.
Just assign them to some remote closed military base with no internet or phone access and put them in 5x5 ft cubes.
A rule that can be un-made...
Antarctica needs government workers desperately! Hint, hint,
Looking for , “the executive power shall be vested in the Office of Personnel Management” in the Constitution and not finding it.
The upper level federal employees are ‘appointed’ (or some such) and not under the protection of what was Civil Service.
Any rule they arbitrarily install can just as arbitrarily be removed...
We shall treat them as Nazi Commie Pinkos and assign them to ropes.
Well…..I like the thought of it anyway.
No need to have mass firings. Implement strict management to implement Trump’s policies.
When they let their politics interfere with their job, fire them for cause.
“Biden Admin Installs New Rule Making It Harder to Fire Bureaucrats”
Bidet’s Deep State Protection Act.
Because entrenched bureaucrats are what makes America great.
another election year sweetener. the idiots in gov will think they’re protected.
No need to fire anyone. They get great new digs located in the picturesque Nome, AK. You get a cot, desk, land phone, fax, no internet. 1 warm blanket.
https://www.mapquest.com/us/alaska/nome-ak-282036349
Rules can be overruled with a pen stroke.
It should be entertaining to watch the presumed meltdown of leftists.
Indeed bring sparklers
The people running the Office of Personnel Management in President Trump’s second administration......
Can’t they just reverse this so-called “rule” and fire these aholes anyway?
It’s already been hinted at here, but the secret is to demote, defund, and/or transfer. As a former fed contactor, I helped play a part in this happening to a worthless fat bureaucrat in 2004. She quit soon after. Nothing could be done about the cow’s unearned pension, though.
These Presidential Edicts are generally prima facie unconstitutional and I think can be instantly reversed by the new incoming President.
“Transfer thousands of them to Adak Island in the Aleutian chain of Alaska. “
The Master Chief used to threaten me with Adak all the time.
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