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President Trump penned an executive order Thursday to form a new classification of noncareer federal employees who will be hired to “help faithfully implement the President’s policy agenda.”
The employees will be listed under the “Schedule G” classification and will engage in “policy-making or policy-advocating work,” according to the White House.
The move essentially creates another class of political appointees who, unlike career federal workers, can be hired and fired at will. This will allow the administration to funnel new hires into such roles, giving the Trump administration greater power over the federal workforce.
[This is literally an authoritarian move, with Trump as the sole authority.]
“We are still carefully analyzing this new order, but we remain deeply concerned about executive actions that expand the number of positions throughout the federal government that can be hired and fired based on political loyalty instead of competence and merit,” AFGE president Everett Kelley said in a statement.
The employees will be listed under the “Schedule G” classification and will engage in “policy-making or policy-advocating work,” according to the White House.
The move essentially creates another class of political appointees who, unlike career federal workers, can be hired and fired at will. This will allow the administration to funnel new hires into such roles, giving the Trump administration greater power over the federal workforce.
[This is literally an authoritarian move, with Trump as the sole authority.]
“We are still carefully analyzing this new order, but we remain deeply concerned about executive actions that expand the number of positions throughout the federal government that can be hired and fired based on political loyalty instead of competence and merit,” AFGE president Everett Kelley said in a statement.
