"A new employee classification is meant to purge the career workforce of impartial expertise and instead steer it toward the president’s political goals, critics say."
"President Donald Trump has yet to launch a crucial part of his workforce agenda that could rip civil service protections from thousands of federal employees.
The Trump administration created a new classification that will essentially make career staffers “at will,” making it much easier for their respective agencies to fire them. Critics of the president believe the category, called Schedule Policy/Career, is meant to purge the civil service of impartial expertise and instead steer it toward his political goals.
But Trump still has not taken the final step of placing employees in the classification, despite having the green light from his own administration to do so for almost two months now.
Jenny Mattingley, vice president for public policy and stakeholder engagement at the Partnership for Public Service, noted the classification is supposed to apply to policy-influencing civil servants, which has been difficult for agencies to nail down."
