President Trump on Friday said that career government employees working on policy matters for the administration will be reclassified "Schedule Policy/Career," – or at will employees – and will be fired if they don’t adhere to his agenda. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images))
The administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) estimated the rule change in Trump’s executive order "Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce" would affect around 50,000 employees or 2% of the federal workforce, the White House said in a Friday memo.
The regulations for civil service employees "with important policy-determining, policy-making, policy-advocating, or confidential duties" will now be considered "at-will" employees, "without access to cumbersome adverse action procedures or appeals, overturning Biden Administration regulations that protected poor performing employees."
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has been working to shrink the government by firing federal workers. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The proposed rule won't change the status of affected employees' jobs until another executive order is issued, the White House said.
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