Our civil service is the envy of the world and must be strengthened and enhanced. Without strong safeguards, the risk of hiring and firing for political reasons is high.

The president’s executive order creating a new Schedule F job classification is deeply troubling and has the potential to impact wide swaths of federal employees over the next few months without engagement from Congress, civil servants and other key stakeholders.

Being able to place any number of existing positions into this new Sched. F not only blurs the line between politics & the neutral competency of the career civil service, it obliterates it. We urge Congress to act swiftly to examine the development & potential impact of this EO.

Read my full statement here: https://ourpublicservice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Partnership-Statement-on-Schedule-F-EO.pdf