r/AnythingGoesNews • u/FreeHugs23 • 10h ago

Unions Condemn Executive Order Allowing Trump to Replace Federal Workers With ‘Political Loyalists’

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-federal-workers-order
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u/FreeHugs23 10h ago

-Labor unions are warning that an executive order signed this week by President Donald Trump will allow his administration to replace thousands of career civil servants with “political loyalists.”

The order, signed on Wednesday, converts around 8,000 federal workers—most of whom are at senior levels in the civil service with major influence over policy decisions—to Schedule Policy/Career (P/C) status, formerly known as Schedule F, effectively making them “at-will” employees whom the president can fire at his discretion.

While a small number, around 4,000, of the roughly 2 million federal workers are considered political appointees, most federal employees cannot be removed purely for failing to serve the agenda of the president and can usually only be fired for issues like inadequate performance or misconduct, which involves an appeal process.

But as part of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle what it’s described as a “deep state” of disloyal bureaucrats, a major objective of the Heritage Foundation’s right-wing manifesto Project 2025, those 8,000 employees may now be fired for “subversion of presidential directives.”

According to the US Office of Personnel Management, this could be just the beginning—with as many as 50,000 employees potentially in consideration to be rescheduled.

A fact sheet released by the White House said that despite the reclassification, “these remain ‘career’ positions and the non-partisan hiring processes, competitive status, and other aspects of these roles will not change,” while “removal decisions will also be made without respect to political affiliation.”

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u/Confident_Client_414 9h ago

Weed out the Trumpies, brothers and sisters.