Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
This bill creates a new Schedule Policy/Career (referred to in the text as Schedule Policy/Career or Schedule F) within the excepted service for confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions not normally changed at presidential transition. It requires OPM to list and adopt regulations, directs agency heads to review positions and petition to place qualifying roles in the new schedule, and makes removals from many excepted schedules not subject to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.
Progressives stress politicization and merit erosion risks
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates a new statutory authority (Schedule Policy/Career) and provides a moderate level of operational direction (actors, deadlines, and references to existing law).
This bill creates a new Schedule Policy/Career (referred to in the text as Schedule Policy/Career or Schedule F) within the excepted service for confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions not normally changed at presidential transition.
It requires OPM to list and adopt regulations, directs agency heads to review positions and petition to place qualifying roles in the new schedule, and makes removals from many excepted schedules not subject to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.
The bill states employees in these positions need not personally support the President but must faithfully implement administration policies and allows dismissal for failure to do so; it also revokes Executive Order 14003 and directs rescission or suspension of certain civil service regulatory changes.
Highly ideological and controversial federal workforce overhaul with weak compromise features, substantial legal and political resistance, and procedural barriers in the Senate.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates a new statutory authority (Schedule Policy/Career) and provides a moderate level of operational direction (actors, deadlines, and references to existing law). It integrates explicitly with title 5 and certain CFR provisions, and prescribes steps agencies and OPM must take to apply the new schedule.
Progressives stress politicization and merit erosion risks
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Progressives stress politicization and merit erosion risks
This persona would view the bill as a major rollback of merit-based civil service protections that risks politicizing career agency roles.
They would see the removal of civil service procedural protections and the dismissal language as likely to chill whistleblowing and professional judgment.
They would be alarmed by the broad delegation to OPM and agency heads to reclassify positions.
A centrist would see both legitimate goals and clear risks: improving accountability and enabling presidential governance versus undermining merit protections and causing disruption.
They would look for targeted application, procedural safeguards, and limits such as narrow definitions, sunset provisions, or oversight requirements.
Implementation details and transitional costs would determine support.
This persona would generally support the bill as restoring presidential control over executive-branch policy implementation and allowing removal of untrustworthy career officials.
They would view Schedule Policy/Career as a tool to ensure appointees can rely on agency staff to execute administration priorities.
Concerns would be mostly practical—speed, scope, and legal defensibility.
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Highly ideological and controversial federal workforce overhaul with weak compromise features, substantial legal and political resistance, and procedural barriers in the Senate.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives stress politicization and merit erosion risks
Highly ideological and controversial federal workforce overhaul with weak compromise features, substantial legal and political resistance,…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates a new statutory authority (Schedule Policy/Career) and provides a moderate level of operational direction (actors, deadlines, and references to existing law).…
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