The Biden administration implemented a new rule making it harder to fire federal workers ahead of former President Trump's possible return.
President Biden's administration is implementing a new rule to make it more difficult to fire federal workers as former President Trump promises to revamp the workforce to weed out the 'deep state.' Early Thursday, the White House released a statement from the Democratic incumbent president regarding 'the final rule to protect nonpartisan civil servants.' Biden said his administration was announcing 'protections for 2.
It will now be much harder for any president to arbitrarily remove the nonpartisan professionals who staff our federal agencies just to make room for hand-picked partisan loyalists,' National Treasury Employees Union President Doreen Greenwald said in a statement. Good government groups and liberal think tanks and activists have cheered the rule.
If Trump wins another term, his administration could direct the Office of Personnel Management to draft new rules. But the process takes months and requires detailed explanation on why new regulations would be improvements — potentially allowing for legal challenges to be brought by opponents. Fox News' Kaitlin Spraugue and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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