Biden quietly makes it harder for future Republican presidents to slash size of the federal bureaucracy
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/opm-rule-proposal-federal-employees
The Biden administration wants to make it difficult for future Republican presidents to decrease the size of the federal bureaucracy.
In 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order creating a new job category for federal employees: Schedule F. The new category would have applied to excepted employees whose job exerted any influence over policy. The directive would have essentially made these employee's "at will," and thus would have stripped them of their civil service protections. In theory, it would have made such employees easy to fire.
What is the Biden admin proposing?
The Office of Personnel Management issued a rule proposal on Friday to give federal employees more protections and to rebuff future attempts at slashing the size of the federal workforce.
The new rule stipulates that any federal employee shifted from the competitive service to the excepted service will keep "the status and civil service protections they had already accrued." The rule also clarifies the definition of which employees have influence over policy to mean "noncareer, political appointments."