WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order this week that could substantially expand his ability to hire and fire tens of thousands of federal workers during a second term, potentially allowing him to weed out what he sees as a “deep state” bureaucracy working to undermine him.
The executive order, issued late Wednesday and described by one prominent federal union leader as “the most profound undermining of the Civil Service in our lifetimes,” would allow federal agencies to go through their employee rosters and reclassify certain workers in a way that would strip them of job protections that now cover most federal employees.
The White House, in a statement that accompanied the executive order, said the new employee classification was justified because under current rules “removing poor performers, even from these critical positions, is time-consuming and difficult.”
As a practical matter, the new order is unlikely to have a widespread effect unless Mr. Trump is re-elected, giving him a second term to carry out the new approach across the government. Should he be defeated by his Democratic opponent, former Vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr., the new president could simply rescind it.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/
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