The largest union representing federal employees continued the Trump administration on Wednesday to block a decree that alleges aims to politicize the federal government by Bringing federal employment workers in employment.
THE trial was filed before a Federal DC court by the American Federation of Government employees. The union challenges a trump of January 20 executive decree This claims to increase the responsibility of the “positions of influence of policies” within the federal workforce by eliminating certain restrictions of hiring and dismissal.
“This program seeks to put policy on professionalism, unlike the laws and values that have defined your civil career service for more than a century,” according to the trial.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The executive decree largely restores a executive decree Trump published towards the end of his first administration, on October 21, 2020. He also ordered the staff management office to cancel the regulations of the Biden administration from April which strengthened the federal protections of ‘job.
In a press release Wednesday, the national president of the federation, Everett Kelley, suggested that Trump’s order is to extend his political control over the federal workforce.
“Together, we can stop efforts to dismiss hundreds of thousands of experienced Americans and workers who have devoted their careers to serve their country and prevent these career officials from being replaced by unskilled political sofa loyal to the President, But not to law or constitution, “said Kelley.
The trial accuses the administration of violating existing regulations and of not having followed the appropriate procedures – in particular by providing an opinion of its plans and an opportunity for the public to comment – to issue new regulations.
The Trump administration seemed to anticipate to be accused of politicization when it published the decree.
The employees and candidates affected by the order “are not required to support the current president personally or politically or the policies of the current administration,” said the order. “They are required to faithfully implement administration policies at best their capacities, in accordance with their constitutional oath and the acquisition of executive authority only with the president. The fact of not doing so is a reason dismissal. “