Ghana recalls envoy to Nigeria over election malpractice
The Government of Ghana has recalled its High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mohammed Ahmed, following allegations linking him to…
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Yale: Who’s Really Running the Government? Yale Lab Tracks Unconfirmed Acting Officials. “ISPS has awarded [Christina] Kinane funding to establish a research team tasked with identifying career and politically appointed acting directors from the Reagan Administration through the Biden Administration, developing a web scraper to provide real-time updates on which acting directors are currently […]
Trump creates ‘Schedule G’ to add more political appointees to agencies top ranks
Updated July 18 at 2:09 p.m. President Trump created another new category of federal employee on Thursday evening,…
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Lawmakers question administration’s push to pay political appointees more – Federal News Network
Based on current federal salary caps, Schedule C political appointees can be paid nearly $200,000 per year.
Democratic lawmakers are criticizing the Trump administration’s recent push to pay political appointees more money. In a letter to the Office of Personnel Management, Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee called OPM’s recent encouragement on the issue an “egregious abuse” of taxpayer dollars. OPM recently recommended that agencies pay their political appointees the maximum salary possible, nearly $200,000. Based on current federal salary caps, Schedule C political appointees can be paid nearly $200,000 per year, but they don’t always receive the top amount. The Democrats are now pressing OPM for more information on the responsibilities and costs of current Schedule C appointees.
(Letter to OPM on Schedule C pay – Senate Appropriations Committee Democrats)Source Links: Lawmakers question administration’s push to pay political appointees more
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The Right brings chaos in government. Nearly 1/4 of Trump's political appointees left office, versus fewer than 1/10 of Biden's.
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Using our political appointee tracker and other data sources, we have examined the rates of Senate-confirmed appointee turnover during the four most recent administrations.
Given its #influence, #Project2025 suggests an incoming #conservative president needs to install more #PoliticalAppointees specifically to the #census bureau & ensure #ideologically aligned career employees are “immediately put in place to execute a conservative agenda”. The next census isn’t until 2030, but plans for it are already under way.
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§ How to remake a government
Trump’s #ScheduleF, the wonkily named plan to create a government more beholden to its executive, is perhaps the biggest change that #Project2025 seeks, & it’s one #Trump [tried in his 1st term]
In each agency chpt, there are suggestions for how more non-partisan, civic employees in the federal government could be turned into #PoliticalAppointees who would be beholden to the Trump agenda & less likely to push back on #policy changes.
Some of the plans, like dismantling the Dept of #Education, have been on #conservative wishlists since the dept began. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t happen – it just means there is an eventual tipping point where they could. Take the fall of #RoeVWade, for instance.
One way the plan seeks to create more tipping points is by adding in more #PoliticalAppointees, a change #Trump has tried in the past in what’s known as #ScheduleF.
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Under #Biden, OIRA took a more aggressive stance in helping review & shape new #regulations, which included efforts to combat #housing #discrimination, ban the sale of #GhostGuns & set new #renewable fuel targets.
Burton, in the #Project2025 video, urges future #PoliticalAppointees to work in #OIRA & argues that the office should “increase its staffing levels considerably”…[to]…rein in the so-called administrative state—the fed agencies that craft & issue new regulations.
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