Trump moves to strip job protections from White House budget analysts as he races to transform civil

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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The outgoing Trump administration is racing to enact the biggest change to the federal civil service in generations, reclassifying career employees at key agencies to strip their job protections and leave them open to being fired before Joe Biden takes office.

The move to pull off an executive order the president issued less than two weeks before Election Day — affecting tens of thousands of people in policy roles — is accelerating at the agency closest to the White House, the Office of Management and Budget.

The budget office sent a list this week of roles identified by its politically appointed leaders to the federal personnel agency for final sign-off. The list comprises 88 percent of its workforce, 425 analysts and other experts who would shift into a new job classification called Schedule F.

The employees would then be vulnerable to dismissal before Trump leaves office if they are considered poor performers or have resisted executing the president’s priorities, effectively turning them into political appointees that come and go with each administration.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-moves-to-strip-job-protections-from-white-house-budget-analysts-as-he-races-to-transform-civil-service/ar-BB1bqFee?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

[Ninga]

1. Sick feeling after reading this. Evil is wide and deep with these people. They are getting away

with destroying norms.

[UTUSN]

2. This crap and the rest like it can be reversed, no?

[napi21]

3. YEAP! Executive orders are the easiest! Just takes another exec. order! nt

[UTUSN]

5. & then a follow-up *law* freezing it. So much depends on Georgia in January!

Then we need Constitutional amendments - curbing the Pardon power, Executive Orders, the Electoral College. More!

[jmowreader]

17. Pardon power and executive orders will be easiest

And of the two, pardon power will be THE easiest...every president has issued pardons the other side does not agree with.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. But, when did this become as easy as being disassembled by executive order?

The protections use to mean something.

[Grokenstein]

14. No one has ever abused the EO like Generalissimo Corpulente.

We've had incompetents in the Oval Office, and we've had scumbags--but no one ever conceived of a rabid, shit-flinging monkey, beholden to our worst enemies and bent on our destruction, getting in there.

...Oh, wait, Stephen King did.

And even George "teddy bears flying hang gliders through dense forest" Lucas saw it coming.

[onecaliberal]

4. If dump can do it with a rule or order, Biden should be able to undo in the same way.

[bullimiami]

6. I dont see how anything that can be done by Executive Order can not be redone by the next President.

Virtually nothing in the Trump era has passed Congress. He's done everything by Presidential fiat.

Trump can reclassify and fire all he wants. Biden can just re-reclassify and restore all the jobs Trump cut.

[Demovictory9]

19. Correct

[jmbar2]

8. Who is masterminding this deep destruction?

Trump is not into these kinds of details. Someone, or some persons are implementing planned destruction at breakneck pace.

Who is doing it, and why?

[pazzyanne]

9. Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller come to mind. nt

[CousinIT]

12. Remember both Trump and Bannon said "destroying the administrative state"

was their objective. These career civil servants are what Trump and Bannon & the Cult called the "deep state". That's how they define the people running the government who actually are experienced, principled and know what they're doing -- as opposed to loyalists and sycophants that kiss a POTUS's ass.

[NJCher]

15. Ah

Now this makes sense.

[orangecrush]

16. Putin's wet dream, in other words

[dlk]

10. Putin's goal is chaos...

[rickyhall]

13. Putin trying to trump the US.

Trump is the anti-American. God damn Trump to Hell.

[tiptonic]

18. Maybe

Maybe our 'friend' Putin. His goal is to destroy the U.S by destroying the Federal government. That is much easier than going to war.

[calclar]

11. SOMEONE BETTER FILE A SUIT AND FAST....

WHAT AN OUTRAGE.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Link to the article in the Washington Post:

Politics

Trump moves to strip job protections from White House budget analysts as he races to transform civil service

By Lisa Rein
November 27, 2020 at 7:25 p.m. EST

The outgoing Trump administration is racing to enact the biggest change to the federal civil service in generations, reclassifying career employees at key agencies to strip their job protections and leave them open to being fired before Joe Biden takes office. ... The move to pull off an executive order the president issued less than two weeks before Election Day — affecting tens of thousands of people in policy roles — is accelerating at the agency closest to the White House, the Office of Management and Budget.

The budget office sent a list this week of roles identified by its politically appointed leaders to the federal personnel agency for final sign-off. The list comprises 88 percent of its workforce — 425 analysts and other experts who would shift into a new job classification called Schedule F.

The employees would then be vulnerable to dismissal before Trump leaves office if they are considered poor performers or have resisted executing the president’s priorities, effectively turning them into political appointees that come and go with each administration.

The Office of Personnel Management is also rushing to shuffle many of its own roughly 3,500 employees into the new category, a senior administration official said. Other agencies are pulling together lists of policy roles, too — but the budget and personnel offices volunteered to be test cases for the controversial policy, this official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations.

{snip}

Lisa Rein
Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Trump adminstration. At The Washington Post, she has written about the federal workforce; state politics and government in Annapolis, and in Richmond; local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods. Follow https://twitter.com/Reinlwapo

[bluestarone]

21. NO RETHUGLICONS speaking out against this, is the worst part!

The name REPUBLICAN needs to stricken fro English language!!

[meow2u3]

22. The Schedule F EO runs afoul of the Civil Service Act

President Biden can either undo the Schedule F (arbitrarily stripping certain civil servants of protection) EO or the incoming DOJ can take it to court and the judge will--or should--declare it unlawful.