By Chris Megerian
Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump is preparing to make one of the controversial staff changes in the 2025 conservative project plan for his second term.
It plans to reclassify 50,000 federal employees in the context of what is known as annex F, which means that they will have less protection from the public service. The proposal follows an executive decree signed at the start of his mandate, and he should be published in the Federal Register on Friday afternoon.
Trump announced this decision on social networks before the rule publication on Friday.
“If these government employees refuse to advance the president’s political interests or engage in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job,” he wrote on his social platform Truth. “It is common sense and will allow the federal government to” finally head for a business “.”
Administration officials argue that it is necessary to increase the responsibility of the workforce. The change should facilitate the replacement of career employees who have “tasks of determining important policies, development of policies, advocation of policies or confidentiality”, according to an information sheet of the White House. The details were first reported by Axios.
Once the rule is finalized, the president plans to sign another decree to conclude the process.
This is the last stage of Trump’s battle against what he describes as “the deep state”, which frustrated his objectives during his first mandate. Now he moves faster to dismiss people and reshape the government bureaucracy, measures that have alarmed unions and political opponents who are worried about consolidating power and violating workers’ rights.
The information sheet said that the plan “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 disabilities.”
Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government employees, criticized the decision.
“The action of President Trump to politicize the work of tens of thousands of federal career employees will erode the system of hiring based on merit and undermine the professional public service on which the Americans count,” he said in a statement.
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California Daily Newspapers
