The order reclassifies about 8,000 workers to a Schedule Policy/Career category created during Trump’s first days in his second term, covering positions with a “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating” nature. Roles listed under the category are at-will positions, meaning the government could fire them without a provided reason.
At the signing ceremony at the Oval Office, James Sherk of the White House Domestic Policy Council told Trump that the order treats the affected employees like private sector workers: “They’re going to be hired on the basis of merit and confidence, but if they’re messing up, then they can be removed quickly—rather than taking a year longer to get rid of them.”
The Wednesday order is the culmination of a move that has been anticipated for months, since the OPM’s rule on Schedule Policy/Career went into effect in March. While the jobs in the category remain career and nonpartisan, they will lose rights to exhaustive processes and appeals when they are removed, allowing for their quicker removal.
“The practical implications of this action are clear,” Kelley said in a statement Wednesday. “Workers who once felt comfortable reporting waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement at their place of employment because they were protected from retaliation will now be afraid for their jobs if they speak out.”
“You can have any political views, but if you allow those views to basically interfere with your willingness to actually carry out lawful orders and policy directives with the administration, then this provides a mechanism obviously for people in those agencies to be able to be removed effectively at will,” Kupor said.
But the OPM’s reclassification efforts have already faced multiple legal challenges before the Wednesday order. Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, one of the organizations challenging the reclassification, said in a statement Wednesday that the country has long relied on a “professional, nonpartisan civil service.”
“When government experts can be fired without cause, it’s not just federal workers who are harmed,” Perryman added, “it’s the people across the country who rely on these essential services every day.”
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