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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executive order declaring an emergency and Trump can undo this immediately.
OPM?
Other People’s Money?
“Issue a new rule”, so it’s an EO? Meaning Trump can cancel it the moment he walks into the oval office?
rule that will be broken
Can’t do that by executive order. Requires an act of Congress.
INDEED!
LOL
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The firing of a million government-paid political activists should begin January 6, 2025.
But we also need a legislative branch that will cut wasteful government spending. A lot of these jobs should cease to exist.
I would suggest shuttering the EPA, the DOE, and DOEducation. Health and Human Services, defund the FBI, CIA and fire all in high command positions in the military, and bring back the ones relieved by Obama in their places.
Biden is a dictator. The executive branch does NOT legislate.
Administrative ‘Rules’ are NOT statute. This just means that the heads of OPM will have to be replaced by the new administration. It will take longer but it’s better knowing you’ll have to do it now rather than finding out later.
POST 7- Thank you.
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