Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service

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Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service protections

President Trump this week fired his biggest broadside yet against the federal bureaucracy by issuing an executive order that would remove job security from an estimated tens of thousands of civil servants and dramatically remake the government.

The directive, issued late Wednesday, strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration.

Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government. The White House declined to say how many jobs would be swept into a class of employees with fewer civil service rights, but civil service experts and union leaders estimated anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in a workforce of 2.1 million.

It would be a profound reimagining of the career workforce, but one that may end up as a statement of purpose rather than anything else. The order fast-tracks a process that gives agencies until Jan. 19 to review potentially affected jobs. That’s a day before the next presidential inauguration. An administration under Democratic nominee Joe Biden would be unlikely to allow the changes to proceed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-issues-sweeping-order-for-tens-of-thousands-of-career-federal-employees-to-lose-civil-service-protections/ar-BB1aiESW?li=BBorjTa&ocid=mailsignout

[Demsrule86]

1. Trump is adding voters who will run to the polls in order not to vote for him.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. If Trump is going down, he's going to make sure everyone else goes down with him!

[soothsayer]

2. Hey, way to lose the civil service vote!

Keep going, Donnie. You’re doing fine.

[woodsprite]

3. He doesn't care about voting. He figures it'll be handed to him like everything else in his life. nt

[BSdetect]

4. I hope this can be stopped now or at least reversed immediately after Jan

[mercuryblues]

7. I think Biden should keep this one for a bit. I will make it easier to fire embedded trumpers

Clean them out.

[Whiskeytide]

5. Looks like they are planning a bloodbath after the election. n/t

[Arazi]

6. Anyone else feel like this is really aimed at firing Dr Fauci?

[procon]

8. This will allow Trump to single out individual

Civil service employees for his personal attacks and retaliation. Now he can ruin the careers and livelihoods of any govt worker who blows the whistle on his corruption, calls out his lies, or opposes his policies.

Will this affect people like Fauci who regularly contradict Trump, or other experienced civil service employees who are trusted experts in the view of the public.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Another one of the many EOs to cancel when Joe takes over. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

10. He doesn't realize what he's doing.

Blowing up his own support groups. What an idiot.

[central scrutinizer]

12. Patronage is back!

Tie your job to political loyalty. Selling jobs for “contributions “. Huge turnover and loss of expertise if a new political party in charge decided to install their toadies. The very offenses civil service was designed to prevent.