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DrWebLawmakers 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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RainSMediaRadioICYMI: Ijaw Youth Council Condemns Suspension of Rivers State Appointees, Calls It a “Military Dictatorship” https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/ijaw-youth-council-condemns-suspension.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #IjawYouthCouncil #RiversState #MilitaryDictatorship #Democracy #PoliticalAppointees
Matt HodgkinsonThe 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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Placing political appointee turnover in the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations in context
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.
NonilexGiven 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.
#Project2025, the controversial playbook & #policy agenda for a #RightWing presidential admin, has lost its director & faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups & Trump. But Project 2025’s plan to train an #army of #PoliticalAppointees who could battle against the so-called [mythical] deep state govt bureaucracy on behalf of a future #Trump admin remains on track.
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2017: An org linked to #Egypt’s #intelligence service withdrew $10M #cash from a Cairo bank, 5 days before #Trump became president.
2019: US investigators learned of the withdrawal. It intensified a #criminal probe into whether money moved from Cairo to Trump, violating federal #law.
Trump’s #DOJ #PoliticalAppointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.
#Harris2024
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