Trump is back…the “Now What” thread

[Malum Prohibitum]

Damn man, my opinion aside. ..but where does homeboy find a job for which he is "impossible to fire"?

Jesus...

It does not say impossible to fire. It says cannot fire without cause. Government jobs are protected by federal law and have procedures built in for firing. It is not an at will position.

Apparently the Trump administration is invoking something that it thinks gets them around those protections, an executive order from when he was President the first term (Schedule F).

As the Trump administration gathers names of recent hires, some are being asked to justify their jobs

New federal workers are the easiest to fire and the administration is gathering information on their names, backgrounds, roles and performance.

www.govexec.com

The collection of names comes as the Trump administration has publicly broadcast its intention to downsize the federal workforce, with the president vowing to eradicate the “cancer” within agencies. Trump has brought back Schedule F—now renamed Schedule Policy/Career—an initiative to strip an untold number of federal employees of their merit-based civil service protections and instead make them at-will workers who can be fired for political reasons. The administration this week made “delayed resignation” offers—which essentially equate to severance packages—to nearly every federal worker. Those offers suggested the administration will further seek layoffs, firings and agency eliminations.

 

[Malum Prohibitum]

More:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-plan-ease-firing-federal-workers-challenged-by-union-2025-01-29/

Under federal law, the president can exempt positions from the civil service when "necessary" and "as conditions of good administration warrant."

Wednesday's lawsuit is narrower and seeks to force OPM to continue enforcing the Biden administration rule until it is repealed.

Trump first carved out the exemption in a 2020 executive order during his first administration, at the time calling it Schedule F. Democratic President Joe Biden rescinded the order in 2021, before any workers were reclassified.

The 2024 rule was intended as a bulwark against Trump's resurrection of Schedule F. The rule says workers who are involuntarily exempted from the civil service retain the legal protections they had already earned, and created a process for them to challenge their reclassification.

 

[theLBC]

 

[theLBC]