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While you were sleeping #Trump issued an edict that eliminates job protections for tens of thousands (maybe millions) of federal employees, all involved in policy-making. It paves the way for a mass firing of govt employees.
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While you were sleeping #Trump issued an edict that eliminates job protections for tens of thousands (maybe millions) of federal employees, all involved in policy-making. It paves the way for a mass firing of govt employees.
MORE https://www.stripes.com/trump-issues-sweeping-order-stripping-job-protections-from-tens-of-thousands-of-federal-employees-1.649559
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The edict "...strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration."
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The edict "...strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration."
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"Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government. The White House declined to say how many jobs..."
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"Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government. The White House declined to say how many jobs..."
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"would be swept into a class of employees with fewer civil service rights, but civil service experts and union leaders estimated anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in a workforce of 2.1 million."
Examples of people whose jobs cld no longer be protected:
"would be swept into a class of employees with fewer civil service rights, but civil service experts and union leaders estimated anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in a workforce of 2.1 million."
Examples of people whose jobs cld no longer be protected:
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- @US_FDA scientists who resist rapid drug or vaccine approvals demanded by @WhiteHouse
- @NIH scientists who deny #COVID19 lies & distortions
- @CDCgov policymakers that insist on lockdown approaches to COVID
- Any scientists calling out #ClimateChange
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- @US_FDA scientists who resist rapid drug or vaccine approvals demanded by @WhiteHouse
- @NIH scientists who deny #COVID19 lies & distortions
- @CDCgov policymakers that insist on lockdown approaches to COVID
- Any scientists calling out #ClimateChange
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This is all in line with a 2017 @WhiteHouse document that I warned at the time was the #Trump masterplan for destroying the "administrative & regulatory government."
It was drafted during #SteveBannon time in the WH, & reflects his anti-govt views.
https://www.performance.gov/GovReform/Reform-and-Reorg-Plan-Final.pdf
This is all in line with a 2017 @WhiteHouse document that I warned at the time was the #Trump masterplan for destroying the "administrative & regulatory government."
It was drafted during #SteveBannon time in the WH, & reflects his anti-govt views.
https://www.performance.gov/GovReform/Reform-and-Reorg-Plan-Final.pdf
"It's an attempt to redefine the civil service as a political arm of the presidency rather than public servants who work for the American people," Beyer said, calling the result "open cronyism that does not benefit the country, but the president."
"The order wld shift the affected employees frm what is known as the 'competitive service' — which covers the bulk of the exec branch — into the 'excepted service,' which applies to political appointees below the level requiring Senate confirmation." https://www.stripes.com/trump-issues-sweeping-order-stripping-job-protections-from-tens-of-thousands-of-federal-employees-1.649559
