Biden Admin Installs New Rule Making It Harder to Fire Bureaucrats

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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 Trumpโ€™s pledge to fire โ€œrogue bureaucratsโ€ 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 itโ€™s targeting a promised move by a potential second Trump presidency to โ€œdrain the swamp and root out the deep stateโ€ by making it easier to fire government workers.

โ€œIn the first week of the Biden-Harris Administration, President Biden revoked an Executive Order issued by the previous Administration that risked altering our countryโ€™s long-standing merit-based civil service system, by creating new excepted service schedule, known as โ€˜Schedule F,โ€™ and directing agencies to move potentially large swathes of career employees into this new excepted service status,โ€ 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.

โ€˜Root Out the Deep Stateโ€™

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.

โ€œWe need to make it much easier to fire rogue bureaucrats who are deliberately undermining democracy or at a minimum just want to keep their jobs,โ€ President Trump said in a speech at the America First Policy Institute on July 26, 2022, promising to โ€œdrain the swamp and root out the deep state.โ€

The former president went further in his speech, calling on Congress to pass laws that would give the commander-in-chief the authority to fire any government employee basically at will.

Byย Tom Ozimek

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