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Feds brace for return of Trump personnel policies

Federal employee unions sought to balance reassuring members that they will fight the return of measures undermining feds’ civil service protections with asserting their commitment to nonpartisan service.

What Trump’s win means for the federal workforce

The Republican former president has vowed to remake the civil service in his image with the reinstatement of Schedule F.

Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people

The American administrative state was established almost 100 years ago by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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10 congressional races for federal employees to watch

Many of the competitive House and Senate races involve lawmakers who oversee federal agency funding.

New bill would levy penalties on feds ‘impeding’ presidential directives and require new training

The Stop Resistance Activities by Federal Employees Act could penalize federal employees if they are found to have obstructed a lawful order from administration officials and require agencies to report those alleged violations to the president every six months. 

OPM issues guidance for agencies to implement anti-Schedule F regulations

The effort to insulate the federal civil service from former President Trump’s plan to replace potentially tens of thousands of career employees in “policy-related” position with loyalists could be short lived if the Republican nominee wins the election next month.

‘Put them in trauma’: Inside a key MAGA leader’s plans for a new Trump agenda

As OMB director, Russell Vought sought to use Trump’s 2020 Schedule F executive order to strip away job protections for nonpartisan government workers.

Biden says Trump's civil service plans make him unfit for office

The president cited his predecessor’s support for reinstating Schedule F, a controversial plan to make tens of thousand of federal workers at-will employees, as he campaigned for Vice President Harris' White House bid.

Does Trump have the right idea about dismantling the Deep State?

COMMENTARY | "Trump’s diagnosis is correct in part but his reform proposal badly misses the target," writes one observer.

Former executives warn Schedule F poses risk to national security

Even if not maximally pursued initially, experts said the effort to replace nonpartisan workers in policy jobs with political loyalists could make presidential transitions even more precarious.

Trump’s second-term agenda: Breaking the bureaucracy

If elected this fall, Donald Trump's return to Washington would promise a more aggressive—and plausible—campaign to hobble unions, politicize the nonpartisan civil service and remake the federal government in the Republican’s image.

Trump calls federal workforce 'crooked,' vows to hold them 'accountable'

In an interview with a right-wing Youtuber, the former president seemingly alluded to reviving Schedule F and other Trump-era policies aimed at making it easier to fire federal employees.

The other time an administration sought a ‘more responsive’ federal workforce

An investigator into the Nixon administration’s civil service abuses says Schedule F shares a lineage with the disgraced former president.

Partnership for Public Service offers an alternative to “burning down” the civil service

The good government group traditionally has taken great pains to avoid partisan politics, but has become more outspoken since former President Trump unveiled Schedule F.

Leaked Project 2025 training videos warn aspiring political appointees of ‘persecution’ by career feds

Though the videos don’t overtly discuss the Trump campaign or the Heritage Foundation-led transition project’s endorsement of Schedule F, conservatives repeatedly stressed the need for more “political control” of agencies.

Unions applaud ‘most pro-union president in history’ following Biden’s decision to end campaign

Labor leaders said their goal remains to defeat Trump’s bid to return to the White House next year.

Here’s how Trump’s new vice presidential pick stacks up on federal workforce issues

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, has been at the center of GOP efforts in Congress to “dismantle” diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies, and has suggested that if Trump wins re-election, he should fire “every mid-level bureaucrat” in government.