Washington, DC…President Donald J. Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) took action to implement President Trump’s Executive Action titled “Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce.”
- OPM proposed a rule to amend the civil service regulations to include Schedule Policy/Career for career employees with important policy-determining, policy-making, policy-advocating, or confidential duties.
- These employees will serve as at-will employees, without access to cumbersome adverse action procedures or appeals, overturning Biden Administration regulations that protected poor performing employees.
- Line federal employees who implement those policies, like Border Patrol agents or wage and hour inspectors, will generally be excluded.
- This rule empowers federal agencies to swiftly remove employees in policy-influencing roles for poor performance, misconduct, corruption, or subversion of Presidential directives, without lengthy procedural hurdles.
- Schedule Policy/Career positions remain career positions, filled through existing nonpartisan, merit-based hiring processes.
- These employees will keep their competitive status and are not required to personally or politically support the President, but must faithfully implement the law and the administration’s policies.
- OPM estimates 50,000 positions will ultimately be moved into Schedule Policy/Career, approximately 2% of the Federal workforce.
- The proposed rule does not directly move positions into Schedule Policy/Career. That will be done by a subsequent executive order after a final rule issues.
FIXING A BROKEN SYSTEM: The proposed rule tackles systemic issues in federal workforce accountability, addressing unaccountable, policy-determining federal employees who put their own interests ahead of the American people’s.
- Federal employees report their agencies do not hold employees accountable:
- The Merit Principles Survey shows less than a quarter of federal employees believe their agencies address poor performers effectively.
- When asked what typically happens to poor performers in their work unit, federal employees’ most common response is they “remain in the work unit and continue to underperform.”
- This happens because the process for removing federal employees is lengthy and difficult:
- The Government Accountability Office reports it takes 6 months to a year to remove poor performers, even before appeals.
- Only two-fifths of federal managers are confident they could remove employees who committed serious misconduct.
- Just one-quarter believe they could remove an employee for poor performance in a critical element of their job.
- Unaccountability allows corruption to fester in agencies:
- For example, a recent audit of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) found widespread misconduct by senior leaders, such as male supervisors pressuring female subordinates for sexual favors in exchange for career assistance.
- The FDIC almost never seriously disciplined employees for such corrupt behavior. Not a single complaint to the agency’s Anti-Harassment program resulted in a removal, or even a demotion.
- The auditors found the FDIC tolerated misconduct because the removal process was too difficult to use.
- Some bureaucrats also use the protections the system gives them to oppose presidential policies and impose their own preferences:
- Recent polling asked senior federal employees in Washington, D.C., what they would do if the President gave them a lawful order they considered bad policy. A plurality said they would ignore the order and do what they thought best.
- During the first Trump administration career attorneys in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division would not assist in litigation charging Yale University with racially discriminating against Asian and Caucasian applicants.
- In the President’s first term, career employees in the Department of Education would not constructively assist in drafting major rules like the Title IX rules.
- An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission administrative judge (AJ) recently sent an agency-wide email stating that the agency’s Acting Chair (who was appointed by President Trump) was “not fit to be our chair much less hold a license to practice law” and that the AJ would not implement President Trump’s Executive Orders.
- Unaccountable bureaucracy undermines democracy. For the government to be accountable to the American people, elected officials must be able to hold policy-determining and policy-making career employees accountable for their performance and conduct.
DRAINING THE SWAMP: President Trump is delivering on his promise to dismantle the deep state and reclaim our government from Washington corruption.
- In his first term, President Trump signed an Executive Order to reclassify certain federal workers in policy-related roles as “Schedule F” employees, enabling swift accountability for those in influential positions.
- When President Biden took office, he revoked this Executive Order, reinstating protections that shielded unaccountable bureaucrats.
President Trump vowed on the campaign trail to reinstate this Executive Order, a promise he kept on his first day returning to office.
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Restoring Accountability?
Thank God, this means no Hamacrat politicians are involved!!!
See how easily democracy has been restored in our Country?
How amazing that the Justice System has been fixed after ridding our Country of the toxic socialist politicians under the Hamacrats, who’s senile, diaper wearing dictaor kept telling our country that his son has done nothing wrong, to using our DOJ as his Secret Police, to Colluding with big tech and Legacy Media to stop Free Speech of anyone speaking against his administration along with his targeting Christians and prolife advocates.
Thank Goodness and or God that today the Majority of Americans see the democrat party as they truly are, and they now have the lowest approval ratings in their entire history.
It seems the party that brought their member only exclusive club known as the KKK , 3 different times in our history, is in total KAOS, fighting among themselves and backstabbing each other.
^^A FoxFool^^^
The “Restoring Accountability?” post person must live in Valley Springs, aka “The Sphincter Muscle of Calaveras County”.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Tom Homan would need all the CUSD, and more, buses to get the illegals loaded out of VS…….
Wow a brainwashed post there.
If anyone needs an accounting for corruption it’s the con and pals monetizing the office of the president.
The don has broken so many laws prohibiting profiting from the office, it is already pages long.
It’s always breathtaking to read how some are so deep in the cult, they have lost all sense of reality.
His Bondi DOJ is worse than the John Mitchel, or Bill Barr atty gens that are well documanted for their corruption. Mitchel went to prison, Barr should of, and Bondi takes the cake for ending well investigated cases of treason on the don, the theft of secret documents taken to his Fla club, boxes of secret docs next to a copy machine in a bathroom, secure , no.
There are photos of this, along with the FBI files on the search, all sunk by Bondi.
The denial of the don’s cult is a study in psychopathy.
^^Agree wholeheartledy.
Forgive them though, for they are but FoxFools. Inept, unintelligent, gullible, and above all, stoopid.
Whoever wrote the first post is one of the most stupid mother fu€kers on the planet. Maybe except our brain dead the worst president ever Donald J Trump.
Biden was no JEWEL
He sucked but way better then weak ineffective Trump. Trump caves on his tariffs because it was tanking our economy. He tells us food prices and egg prices are falling(lies) Ukrain is attacked again Putin will never stop and he is no friend to the US but dimwit Don seems to think he is a buddy. Accountability ? What a joke. Stop watching Fox News . You do know that they were successfully sued for libel and slander by Dominion systems don’t you? Just more BS lies and propoganda MAGA will be a blotchy fu€k stain on American history.
WTF is a Hamacrat? Please get help.
What’s a hamacrat?
Just another silly made up MAGA word.
On a scale from one to ten. How is trumps first 100 days ? A Zero
^True dat!! Nothing accomplished. Oh wait, he got more water in the shower. Dismantling all safety nets for the citizens of this country. No new legislation on the horizon. We are now the most hated country in the world. Nobody wants to come here. Can you blame them? Tariffs killing not only our economy, but the worlds. Whose idea was that??? One man, Donald J Trump. EVERYONE has told him its a bad idea. Get ready for empty shelves when you go shopping folks. Not too far in the future.
He tried to play hardball with China, they bitch slapped him, now he is backing up faster than Anti bent over in a gay bar. They called his bluff, now we see the “Art of the deal” in action. Is it possible the USA will have to declare bankruptcy like many of his businesses?? Can we even do that??
He is the cowardly lion. Call his bluff, get in his face, and he folds like a cheap suit.
China now owns him. Putin also is in on that action, and everyone is now laughing at that fat, sad, pasty phuck.
Trump is a mental patient that Republicans are letting destroy our country
Trumps best friend Jeffery Epstein’s victim killed herself today. She was assaulted by prince andrew. With trump covering it up ….
Trump is a sexual predator. Plan and simple
That stupid trumps blue suit. Ignorant slob sexual predator is disrespectful and disgusting
Biden is in the don’s head.
His staff says he mentions his name 5 x a day.
His reaction in being told Biden would be at the Pope’s funeral was glum.
Compare Biden’s economy to the don’s.
The don wore a blue tie to the funeral, when everyone else wore black.
You get no respect from the don unless you’re a dictator.