Remember when former President Donald Trump issued an executive order creating Schedule F, a policy that makes it easier for a president to fire federal employees? It appears the Biden administration is trying to make it harder for a president to take such action.
Given the current polling showing President Joe Biden in a statistical tie with Trump, they might have cause for such concerns.
The Biden administration is trying to protect unelected federal bureaucrats from being fired in the event of a Republican victory in 2024, according to a document filed with the Federal Register on Friday morning.
The Office of Personnel Management, an agency that manages all federal workers, proposed a rule that would protect the vast majority of career civil servants from being dismissed without cause, and give them the right to appeal, according to the filing.
The rule would oppose the efforts of some Republican presidential candidates - should they become president - to unilaterally fire bureaucrats who disagree with conservative policies, as they have vowed to do.
"The 2.2 million career civil servants active today are the backbone of the Federal workforce [t]hese employees take an oath to uphold the Constitution and are accountable to agency leaders and managers who, in turn, are accountable to the President," the filing reads.
During Trump's stint in the White House, he issued Executive Order 13957, creating Schedule F, which granted the president more latitude when it comes to hiring and firing federal workers.
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