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Some agencies are notifying employees of their ‘Schedule F’ status
Agencies are submitting lists of employees who will lose civil service protections and some are taking a broad approach.
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Russ Vought, champion of Schedule F and slashing agency budgets, wins confirmation to OMB
Trump's pick for budget chief was confirmed by the Senate after Democrats held the floor for a full day to speak in opposition to him.
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New Schedule F guidance shows the Trump White House is rearing for a fight
Trump administration officials elected to bypass the regulatory process to rescind Biden-era rules aimed at barring Schedule F’s revival, setting up a bigger fight over the president's authority.
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How a pair of executive orders and a memo could fast track the civil service’s politicization
Good government experts warn that President Trump’s revival of Schedule F, inserting new criteria into the hiring process and demand for a list of all feds who are still on their probationary period portend a mass firing of career workers as the new administration seeks to reshape the federal bureaucracy.
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Trump: Agencies should fire 'all' bureaucrats
Atop the president’s anticipated actions this week are executive orders moving to reinstate Schedule F, reduce unions’ bargaining rights and broad rollbacks of telework at federal agencies.
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Trump’s pick for OMB chief defends removing civil service protections, withholding appropriated funds
Russ Vought laments "weaponized bureaucracies" as he draws bipartisan criticism for declining to commit to following spending laws.
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OPM officials tout agency’s transformation under Biden
Leaders at the federal government’s dedicated HR agency said the organization has come a long way since being targeted for elimination by the first Trump administration.
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Last-ditch effort to block Schedule F’s return thwarted by Senate Republicans
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., sought unanimous consent on the Senate floor to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act, but his motion was opposed by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
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Will civil service protections hold up against RFK Jr.’s threats to the federal public health workforce?
Kennedy, Trump’s pick to lead HHS, has talked openly about removing swaths of civil servants at FDA and NIH.
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Schedule F 2.0...can it be that bad?
COMMENTARY | "Is it the 'end of democracy as we know it' bad?" asks one former federal official.
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Trump expected to tap Schedule F architect promising widespread federal layoffs to head OMB
Russ Vought previously held the job and now says he wants federal workers to be "viewed as the villains."
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GOP pollster says survey data shows Americans would not support Trump’s efforts to reinstitute Schedule F
The federal government has an image problem. Frank Luntz has thoughts on how to improve it.
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Key lawmakers back Trump's plans to remove federal workers
GOP leaders say they will back the president-elect's efforts to strip civil-service protections.
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Feds brace for return of Trump personnel policies
Federal employee unions sought to balance reassuring members that they will fight the return of measures undermining feds’ civil service protections with asserting their commitment to nonpartisan service.
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What Trump’s win means for the federal workforce
The Republican former president has vowed to remake the civil service in his image with the reinstatement of Schedule F.
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Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people
The American administrative state was established almost 100 years ago by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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10 congressional races for federal employees to watch
Many of the competitive House and Senate races involve lawmakers who oversee federal agency funding.
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New bill would levy penalties on feds ‘impeding’ presidential directives and require new training
The Stop Resistance Activities by Federal Employees Act could penalize federal employees if they are found to have obstructed a lawful order from administration officials and require agencies to report those alleged violations to the president every six months.
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OPM issues guidance for agencies to implement anti-Schedule F regulations
The effort to insulate the federal civil service from former President Trump’s plan to replace potentially tens of thousands of career employees in “policy-related” position with loyalists could be short lived if the Republican nominee wins the election next month.
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