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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's plan to burn the civil service to the ground is moving forward at one major agency
Donald Trump signed an executive order last month taking aim at the existence of a nonpartisan civil service with job protections for career employees that prevent the entire government from being politicizedand 88% of the workers at the Office of Management and Budget are already in the crosshairs, ahead of schedule.
OMB Director Russell Vought has determined that 425 OMB workersagain, 88% percent of themshould be converted to the new Schedule F, which would allow Trump to purge those who arent sufficiently loyal to him personally, and would potentially strip the agency of many of its most experienced, knowledgeable staff immediately before President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration.
A long list of good government and government ethics organizations sent Congress a letter urging lawmakers to block Trumps executive order, writing Our nonpartisan civil service has served as a model for other countries for more than a century. Since the passage of the Pendleton Act of 1883, civil servants have been hired based on their qualifications, and have been protected from removal based on political affiliation. These protections do not exist for the sake of the civil servants themselves, but rather to ensure the government delivers services insulated from undue political influence.
The executive order risks doing concrete damage to the function of governmentas Team Trump no doubt intended.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/25/1998084/-Team-Trump-is-moving-forward-with-a-plan-to-purge-the-government-of-anyone-but-Trump-loyalists?detail=emaildkre
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)There are many, many such orders that will need to be reversed. We may also need some legislation to tighten up against the damage rogue President can do.
Donald J. Trump is doing his best to trash things. That means we will need our new President to have his staff hunt down and destroy destrictive EOs from Trump. I'm sure that is the plan.
Trump is about out of time to put in place things like this and then to make them work. Most can be reversed before anyone gets purged, really.
Just one more job for Joe Biden to take care of. He'll be very busy in his first 100 days.
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,100 posts)such?
Ilsa
(61,691 posts)Or maybe the Secret Service. Or maybe the cook at McDonalds.
This shit has to be stopped. We need to move up inaugurations.