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The Trump administration is going forward with efforts to facilitate the dismissal of federal workers in their work, as part of its efforts to shrink the federal government and exercise more control.
On Friday, the staff management office (OPM) proposed a reclassifying rule for tens of thousands of career civil servants as a “at will”, the White House announced in a statement. The removal of public service protections would make workers easier to turn.
The White House said that the proposed rule would tackle “non -responsible federal employees and determining the policies that put their own interests before the American people”.
President Trump and his allies, including billionaire Elon Musk, said they wanted to “dismantle the government’s bureaucracy”, which they criticize as a “deep state” and root what Trump called “bureaucrats thoroughs”. They said, without presenting evidence, that the government is plagued by corrupt employees and non -existent workers. Trump has long argued that his administration should have greater flexibility in the appointment of people who will faithfully carry out his program and dismiss those who will not.
“If these government employees refuse to advance the president’s political interests or engage in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job,” Trump wrote in an article on the rule proposed on his social platform of truth on Friday.
The effort to eliminate the protections of the public service of certain workers began the first day of Trump’s return, with a decree achieving an order signed that Trump signed at the end of his first mandate, in 2020. (This order was canceled by the president of the time, Biden Days after having taken office.) The last Trump order creates a new category of people named politicians in the federal work force, initially called F.
The OPM estimates that 50,000 jobs, around 2% of federal workers, will be reclassified under the new rule, which renounces annex F as a policy / career of the annex. According to the declaration of the White House, it would apply to “career employees with a determination of important policies, the development of policies, the implementation of policies or confidential tasks”. He declared that once the OPM would make its final rule, another decree in fact recruited specific positions as a policy / career on the calendar.
“This rule allows federal agencies to quickly withdraw employees from the roles of influence of policies for poor performance, bad behavior, corruption or subversion of presidential directives, without procedural dumbbells,” said the White House statement.
He added that the policy / career jobs of the annex “are not required to support the president personally or politically, but must faithfully implement the law and the policies of the administration”. They will continue to be filled with “non -partisan hiring processes and based on merit,” said the White House.
The American Federation of Government employees continued the administration to protect the workers of the public service and, in a statement, its president, Everett Kelley, said that this last action “would erode the job system based on merit and undermine the professional public service on which the Americans count”.
Friday’s proposed rule comes when Trump continues to make radical changes to the federal government, close certain agencies and move forward with mass fire.
Trump also oust other government employees whom he considers insufficiently faithful, in particular in dismissal more than a dozen officials of the Ministry of Justice who worked on federal criminal investigations on him.
