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• Congressional Dems urge rescission of Schedule F regulations - May 15, 2025

• FMA opposes Schedule F and any other effort to politicize the federal government.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  Though the Office of Personnel Management has estimated around 50,000 federal employees, or 2% of the workforce, would be stripped of their civil service protections under the controversial initiative, lawmakers warned a failure to define "policy-related” positions will cause far more to become at-will employees.
  

  A group of 27 Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Trump administration to reverse course on plans to reinstate Schedule F and strip tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections.
  
  The Office of Personnel Management published proposed rules last month governing the revival of President Trump’s first-term effort to reclassify federal workers in “policy-related” roles outside of the competitive service, making them effectively at-will employees. OPM is accepting public comments on the proposal, now renamed Schedule Policy/Career, until May 23, after which the agency is expected to finalize the rules and President Trump to sign an executive order ordering the first round of job reclassifications.
  
  In a letter to acting OPM Director Charles Ezell, a group of congressional Democrats led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said the administration’s plan threatens to “upend” more than a century’s worth of laws aimed at insulating the civil service from partisan influence.

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