The executive order points out the simple truth that executive branch jobs that deal directly with policy are political by nature.
Since POTUS is the unitary head of the executive branch, it has never made sense for civil servants who hold these political jobs and report up to POTUS to have protections allowing them to run policy contrary to what POTUS wants.
This EO rights a glaring wrong that contributes to the strength of deep state.
This is the best comment ^. People like Fauchi et al for all practical purposes, are untouchable, and have gained their positions by pleasing other unelected govt. employees. I can see that one reaction to this would be for some employees to not want to get promoted past a certain point.
People like Fauchi, the Vindmans, ad infinitum, have always been a problem that was too small to deal with, but like ticks or termites, eventually cripple the host. I think the coding field may get crowded soon.
It's as if in these bloated bureaucracies, the lower down in the chain you are, the more power you have. Because rules and regs and unions make it next to impossible to fire you even if you secretly (or blatantly) subvert the President's policies. The Executive Branch is riddled with these termites.
The Government protected class employees are the “little tyrants”, the unelected, who rule over us. They make rules and decisions that effect our everyday lives, yet are unaccountable.
This happens with every giant corporation. The bigger the internal bureaucracy gets the more day to day details there are. Eventually it starts acting and growing for it's own benefit. That's why Trump is so good with dealing with it. He's a hugely successful businessman.
The EO gives department heads the ability to
reclassify jobs in a fireable status, so underperforming can be eliminated . It does not give POTUS unlimited power to axe people who disagree with him.
Everyone seems to be getting this wrong. Still a very important EO, but not quite what’s being presented.
Read the EO again, please. The problem until now is that many federal employees whose jobs involve interpreting, making, or pushing public policy are in the competitive service with the merit system protections that affords.
Everybody loves to talk about the Pendleton Act and ending the spoils system when the merit system was established around the turn of the last century, but nobody ever talks about OPM's regulatory rulemaking which bypassed Congress and went into high gear to stack the deck in favor of federal employees' job security during FDR's New Deal overreach.
I agree that the average federal employee should be protected from being fired and replaced whenever the White House changes hands. Ask Hitlery about how she had to invent embezzlement charges against Billy Dale to get him out of the way so she could give POTUS travel business to her Hollyweird friends.
That said, there is no reason why a federal employee whose job involves policy—who is therefore a political employee—should enjoy protections that non-political employees have. Those misapplied protections allow assholes to subvert the policy preferences of their boss, POTUS, as I have watched in rage since GEOTUS's inauguration.
Reclassify these jobs under the new schedule, and it is up to the federal employee to take the job or not with the understanding that he will serve at the pleasure of the POTUS.
I agree that the average federal employee should be protected from being fired and replaced whenever the White House changes hands.
I don't. When in the private sector, if your company many gets sold or merges or undergoes downsizing or any of a myriad of changes, you aren't afforded employee for life status, so neither should they be.
Seriously, except for higher ups, how often does someone go from public sector to private sector? Never. It never happens, and it should happen at least as frequently as 4.3 years, to match private sector employer changes.
The executive order points out the simple truth that executive branch jobs that deal directly with policy are political by nature.
Since POTUS is the unitary head of the executive branch, it has never made sense for civil servants who hold these political jobs and report up to POTUS to have protections allowing them to run policy contrary to what POTUS wants.
This EO rights a glaring wrong that contributes to the strength of deep state.
This is the best comment ^. People like Fauchi et al for all practical purposes, are untouchable, and have gained their positions by pleasing other unelected govt. employees. I can see that one reaction to this would be for some employees to not want to get promoted past a certain point.
People like Fauchi, the Vindmans, ad infinitum, have always been a problem that was too small to deal with, but like ticks or termites, eventually cripple the host. I think the coding field may get crowded soon.
Don't you dare criticize Luitenant Colonel Vindman, The Exalted One!!
OH SAY CAN YOU SEE
It's as if in these bloated bureaucracies, the lower down in the chain you are, the more power you have. Because rules and regs and unions make it next to impossible to fire you even if you secretly (or blatantly) subvert the President's policies. The Executive Branch is riddled with these termites.
The Government protected class employees are the “little tyrants”, the unelected, who rule over us. They make rules and decisions that effect our everyday lives, yet are unaccountable.
This happens with every giant corporation. The bigger the internal bureaucracy gets the more day to day details there are. Eventually it starts acting and growing for it's own benefit. That's why Trump is so good with dealing with it. He's a hugely successful businessman.
The EO gives department heads the ability to reclassify jobs in a fireable status, so underperforming can be eliminated . It does not give POTUS unlimited power to axe people who disagree with him.
Everyone seems to be getting this wrong. Still a very important EO, but not quite what’s being presented.
Read the EO again, please. The problem until now is that many federal employees whose jobs involve interpreting, making, or pushing public policy are in the competitive service with the merit system protections that affords.
Everybody loves to talk about the Pendleton Act and ending the spoils system when the merit system was established around the turn of the last century, but nobody ever talks about OPM's regulatory rulemaking which bypassed Congress and went into high gear to stack the deck in favor of federal employees' job security during FDR's New Deal overreach.
I agree that the average federal employee should be protected from being fired and replaced whenever the White House changes hands. Ask Hitlery about how she had to invent embezzlement charges against Billy Dale to get him out of the way so she could give POTUS travel business to her Hollyweird friends.
That said, there is no reason why a federal employee whose job involves policy—who is therefore a political employee—should enjoy protections that non-political employees have. Those misapplied protections allow assholes to subvert the policy preferences of their boss, POTUS, as I have watched in rage since GEOTUS's inauguration.
Reclassify these jobs under the new schedule, and it is up to the federal employee to take the job or not with the understanding that he will serve at the pleasure of the POTUS.
I don't. When in the private sector, if your company many gets sold or merges or undergoes downsizing or any of a myriad of changes, you aren't afforded employee for life status, so neither should they be.
Seriously, except for higher ups, how often does someone go from public sector to private sector? Never. It never happens, and it should happen at least as frequently as 4.3 years, to match private sector employer changes.
Yes, this EO is genius, and finally hits at the problem.