Workforce
Biden Is Officially Running For Reelection. What Has He Done For Public Servants?
Courtney Bublé joins the podcast to discuss the president's announcement.
Workforce
Conservative Think Tanks Are Preparing a List of 20K Potential Political Appointees in Hopes of Reviving Schedule F
A coalition led by the Heritage Foundation has launched a massive recruitment effort that would grow the ranks of federal political appointees from 4,000 to 20,000 in the next Republican presidential administration.
Workforce
Should Feds Be Afraid of a Second Trump Term?
Stuart Shapiro joins the podcast to discuss the effects of the former president's attacks on the civil service.
Workforce
Trump Vows to ‘Shatter the Deep State,’ Revive Schedule F and Move More Agencies Out of DC
The former president also said that if reelected in 2024, he will crack down on whistleblowers.
Workforce
DeSantis Endorses Schedule F Ahead of Possible Presidential Run
The Florida governor, widely expected to run for president in 2024, called for “cleaning out” science agencies like the CDC, NIH and FDA.
Oversight
The Spoils System Still Threatens the Civil Service
Donald F. Kettl and Daniel Chenok join the podcast to discuss merit systems and modernization.
Management
Say No to Politicizing the Civil Service, But Yes to More Flexibility
Banning exceptions to standard federal personnel rules could make agency-specific reforms more difficult.
Management
A Broken Civil Service System Could Break Government
Jeffrey Neal joins the podcast again to talk about the pace of change in modernizing the federal workforce.
Workforce
Lawmakers Are Doubling Down on the Effort to Prevent the Next Schedule F
The latest legislative proposal to block presidents from unilaterally stripping federal workers of their civil service protections creates additional barriers to reclassifying employees.
Workforce
How Public Sector Unions Are Adjusting to a Post-Trump World
Erich Wagner joins the podcast to discuss the state of organized labor in federal workplaces.
Workforce
Why Do Americans Fear Government So Much?
Lisa Parshall joins the podcast to discuss the new edition of her book on the administrative state and the differences in administration between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Workforce
Year of the Living Dead: How Schedule F Continued to Threaten to Upend the Civil Service in 2022
The Trump administration’s abortive effort to strip thousands of federal workers of their civil service protections continues to cast its shadow on government.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: 2022 In Review
Tom Shoop joins the podcast to discuss the biggest stories of the year.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: A Politicized Civil Service is Coming, if Congress Doesn't Act
The Project on Government Oversight's Joe Spielberger joins the podcast to discuss the looming Schedule F threat.
Workforce
Lawmakers Left Anti-Schedule F Legislation Out of the Compromise Defense Policy Bill
Prospects for it look grim after it wasn’t included in the piece of must-pass legislation.
Workforce
Trump, Who Tried to Weaken Feds' Civil Service Protections, Announces 2024 Run
Prior to Tuesday’s announcement, the former president endorsed plans to reimplement Schedule F if he returned to the White House.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: The Fight to Codify Civil Service Protections
Dr. Donald Kettl joins the podcast to discuss the future of anti-Schedule F legislation.
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Workforce
Sen. Kaine is ‘Optimistic’ an Anti-Schedule F Bill Will Get a Floor Vote This Year
The Democratic senator described Republican arguments that the Trump administration’s abortive effort to make thousands of federal workers effectively at-will employees was aimed at dealing with poor performers as “not honest.”
Workforce
Federal Employee Advocates and Scholars All Are Urging Congress to Enact Anti-Schedule F Legislation
With the window to pass a bill preventing presidents from unilaterally creating new job classifications closing at the end of the year, good government and federal employee advocates warn of potential grave consequences for inaction.
Workforce