About 50,000 career officials would be reclassified as “at will” employee and would lose the protections of the public service.
The largest federal union in the United States said Friday, tens of thousands of federal workers could soon “make their jobs politicize” and be quickly dismissed under a new rule offered by the staff management office.
Under the rule, around 50,000 career officials would be reclassified as “at will” employees, eliminating public service protections and facilitating the federal government to reject them more easily.
President Donald Trump and its billionaire ally, technology tycoon Elon Muskhave long said that the federal workforce is upmarket of “bureaucrats thugs” and is part of “the deep state”, committing to dismantle the public service.
Asset said On its social media platform, Truth Social, that reclassifying workers “will allow the federal government to” finally direct themselves as a business “.
“If these government employees refuse to advance the president’s political interests or engage in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job,” he said.
Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said The announcement on Friday was the last “in a series of measures deliberated by this administration to corrupt the federal government and replace the officials qualified by political friends”.
“The action of President Trump to politicize the work of tens of thousands of federal career employees will erode the job system based on merit and undermine the professional public service on which the Americans count,” said Kelley. “Polifying the career public service is a threat to our democracy and for the integrity of all the programs and services on which Americans count.”
The new category for civil servants was originally called Annex F, but the White House declared that it modified the classification in “policy / career planning”.
US Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner and the representative Gerry Connolly, all Democrats of Virginia whose voters include many federal employees, said Trump’s proposal on Saturday to “hire and dismiss these workers according to their policy, not their qualifications … makes us all less safe”.
Legislators have everything sustained legislation To protect the Federal Public Service against reclassification outside the principles of the Merit System without the approval of the Congress, and issued a warning to the Republicans of Congress which have heard Angry voters in recent weeks about administration expenses Government Department of Effectiveness.
“Anyone who cares about our national security or receives social security, Medicare, Medicaid or any other critical service administered by the federal government, has an interest acquired in protecting our federal workforce based on merit,” said legislators. “We have long fought for legislation in order to protect the federal workforce from this type of attack. To our colleagues who will hear their voters if government services continue to refuse because of this decision: you have been notified. ”
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