The White House’s Office of Personnel Management notified heads of agencies and departments that they must begin taking steps to close all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices by the end of the day Wednesday and place government workers in those offices on paid leave,
The Office of Personnel Management — the government’s top human resources agency – notified federal department heads in a memo that DEI program employees must be notified by 5 p.m. Wednesday
Good government experts warn that President Trump’s revival of Schedule F, inserting new criteria into the hiring process and demand for a list of all feds who are still on their probationary period portend a mass firing of career workers as the new administration seeks to reshape the federal bureaucracy.
Some federal departments have more than half their staff working remotely—meaning Trump's new executive order is a problem.
The classification, which makes it easier to fire federal workers, is also the subject of congressional legislation.
President Trump reinstated a revised executive order from his first term that would make it easier for the White House to remove policy-facing federal employees — including Senior Executive Service employees.
President Trump called for a hiring freeze and a return to office for federal employees, but implementing telework changes will face multiple roadblocks.
The executive order brings back "Schedule F," that allows many federal employees to be reclassified as political appointees, making it easier to remove workers deemed insufficiently loyal to his administration.
OPM said technological advances necessitated the changes, but some stakeholders argued the modifications still don’t reflect current governmental needs.
Executive orders are written directives issued by a president that manage the operations of the U.S. government. They have the force of law similar to regulations issued by federal agencies, according to the American Bar Association.
Hours after President Donald Trump was inaugurated into his second presidential term Monday, he took to the stage of the Capital One Arena in Washington and signed two executive orders on the federal workforce,