Such #CivilServants in #nonpartisan roles traditionally have had #JobProtections that shielded them from the political whims of whoever was in the White House.
But #Trump & many of his backers have long believed the #ConspiracyTheories that a "deep state" of Washington bureaucrats was undercutting his agenda.
Toward the end of his first term, Trump signed an EO establishing a #ScheduleF category for federal employees.
#law #labor #CivilService #Project2025 #autocracy #AbuseOfPower
“That incident was a case study in them going after the people who do the #science,”…Clement said.
In April, OPM finalized a rule that will allow federal employees to keep their existing #JobProtections & right to #DueProcess, including the right to appeal a reassignment or firing. The rule overturns a #Trump directive, known as #ScheduleF, that allowed his admin to force out thousands of career employees by changing their status to #AtWill workers who could be fired w/o due process.
#Trump & snr advisers on his team came to believe #career ofcls who raised objections to their #policies on #legal or practical grounds — including some of their disputed #immigration plans (#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #FamilySeparation)— were deliberately sabotaging their agenda. Portraying #federal #employees as unaccountable bureaucrats, the #TrumpTeam has argued that removing #JobProtections for those who have any influence over #policymaking is justified because it is too difficult to fire them.
The rule addresses a move #Trump tried to make late in his presidency by issuing an EO known in shorthand as #ScheduleF. It would have empowered his admin to strip #JobProtections from #career #federal #employees — who are supposed to be hired based on #merit & cannot be arbitrarily fired. While the EO said agencies should not hire or fire Schedule F employees based on #political affiliation, it effectively would have made these employees more like political appointees who can be #fired #AtWill.
Other proposals in the mix include eliminating #college majors in #GenderStudies, nixing #diversity efforts at #universities & #JobProtections for tenured #faculty, strengthening parents’ ability to veto #K12 class materials & extending a #ban on teaching about #gender & #sexuality — from 3rd grade up to 8th grade..
#RightWingExtremism #Indoctrination #WhiteWashing #WhiteSupremacy #HeteroSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #ChristrianSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #HeteroSexism #Tenure #Florida
