Less than two weeks before Election Day 2020, former President Trump signed Executive Order 13957, a move to radically transform the federal government by replacing thousands of career, nonpartisan employees with political appointees.
The executive order made it easier to fire career experts by putting them into a new federal employment category called “Schedule F.” This new designation would remove long-standing protections from as many as 50,000 career workers, allowing them to be fired and replaced with political appointees.
Thankfully, President Biden rescinded that dangerous Executive Order during his first week in office, but there’s nothing stopping a future president from again trying to upend the federal government by firing experts and replacing them with thousands of political loyalists. In fact, former President Trump has indicated that if he is reelected, he would do exactly that.
We believe Congress should step up and pass our Preventing a Patronage System Act to make sure no future president – from either party – is able to singlehandedly strip away bedrock merit-based civil service protections. Our bill, which we also recently filed as an amendment to this year’s defense bill, would prevent any future president from reclassifying federal employee positions into this unprotected “Schedule F” category without the express approval of Congress.
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