House Democrats are demanding the Trump administration immediately stop implementing the president's Schedule F executive order until they can determine the EO's full impact on the career federal workforce.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Oversight.gov Authorization Act would formally require the upkeep of the website where users can access all public reports released by agency IGs.
The National Treasury Employees Union is suing the Trump administration over the president's recent Schedule F executive order. Three House Democrats introduced new legislation intended to nullify the EO and protect career federal employees impacted by it.
Ron Sanders, a longtime federal leader and three-year Trump administration appointee, said the president's recent EO would prevent career employees from speaking truth to power. He resigned in protest from his position as chairman of the Federal Salary Council.
In theory, a Biden administration could, for its own purposes, use the Trump executive order.
Reaction over the president's new executive order on the creation of a new Schedule F for certain policy-making positions ranges from "forget it!" to "finally!"
These new jobs could replace all career civil service positions “of a confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating character.”
A new executive order from President Donald Trump will reclassify certain current and future positions in the career civil service as a new political class known as "Schedule F."