Nonilex

The #Trump admin on Friday will announce that it's moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as "#ScheduleF," that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting Trump's agenda.

By stripping #CivilService protections from about 50k people — roughly 2% of the federal work force — Trump is continuing his far-reaching effort to *trim the federal bureaucracy* & make it more answerable to him.

#law #labor #autocracy #AbuseOfPower
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/18/trump-federal-workers-schedule-f-firings

Scoop: Trump revamps "Schedule F," making it easier to cut federal workers

He's continuing his far-reaching effort to dramatically trim the bureaucracy and pack it with loyalists.

Axios
Apr 18, 2025 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadNonilexApr 18, 2025

#OPM's new rule—dubbed "Schedule Policy/Career"—will allow many career #CivilServants to be classified as "#AtWill" employees, making them easier to remove.

#Trump aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are *underperforming*, engaging in *misconduct* or *undermining* Trump's policy plans.

#law #labor #ScheduleF #CivilService #Project2025 #autocracy #ExecutivePower #AbuseOfPower

Show threadNonilexApr 18, 2025

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

Show threadNonilexApr 18, 2025

President #Biden rescinded the order after he took office, but after taking office again in Jan, #Trump signed a new EO reinstating & renaming it.

Trump & his allies laid the groundwork for a new admin stocked w/ #loyalists. #ScheduleF was a significant part of that plan.

Many of the Trump allies who pushed for Schedule F now have key roles in the admin, including Dpty Chief of Staff #StephenMiller & #OMB Dir #RussVought.

#law #labor #CivilService #Project2025 #autocracy #AbuseOfPower

Show threadSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸Apr 18, 2025
@Nonilex
MAGA is make-believe, so a competent, rational bureaucrat will by definition be "undercutting" Trump.
Show threadAnonomouse13Apr 19, 2025

@Nonilex

Pretty sure that changing civil servants to "at will" is in the Project2025 book.

Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 18, 2025

@Nonilex

How about we call it #ScheduleFU?

Show threadDavid - Forking MadApr 18, 2025
@Nonilex Wait, you are saying #Trump has an agenda. That implies some planning. Whereas all I see is a random collection of thoughts, vomiting out as a executive order (no democracy in sight), and then a quick change the following day as the wind is blowing in a different direction. (He's had breakfast with the wife and she's told him to stop being a dick)
Show threadKyle Memoir 🍉🐧Apr 18, 2025

@Nonilex

I agree with this much of the White House stance:

'Unelected career bureaucrats should be held accountable to the agenda Americans vote for...'

Yes, yes and yes.

To the extent their role includes analysis, critique and responsibility to inform the administration (and others as legally required, like a free press) of proposed policy changes detrimental to Americans or America herself.

It’s called 'truth to power'.

Trump and the zombie crowd don't want to hear it.