This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President Donald Trump has openly promoted his plan to fire thousands, even tens of thousands of federal workers, to cut waste, fraud, and corruption from the government.
He's already accomplished a lot of that, shutting down some entire bureaucracies with plans for more.
But now he's going full throttle, with an announcement that the administration is moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as "Schedule F," that will make it a lot easier to remove federal employees it believes "are undercutting President Trump's agenda."
A report from Axios noted the plan apparently will limit "civil service protections" for about 50,000, or 2% of the federal workforce.
The report explained, "The Office of Personnel Management's new rule — dubbed 'Schedule Policy/Career' — will allow many career civil servants to be classified as 'at will' employees, making them easier to remove. Trump aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are underperforming, engaging in misconduct, or undermining Trump's policy plans."
While many, many federal employees are supposedly performing "nonpartisan" jobs, many of those have, in fact, made their posts partisan by pursuing their own political agendas while being paid by taxpayers.
Those would be known these days as the "Deep State," which in fact has weaponized large parts of the federal bureaucracy against Trump.
The report said it was toward the end of his first term that Trump, by executive order, established a Schedule F category, but Joe Biden immediately killed the plan.
The report noted that a White House official confirmed that even unelected career bureaucrats need to be accountable for the agenda chosen by voters.
It was earlier this month that some agencies started picking which positions should fall under the new definition, the report said.
Leftists have claimed the cuts already being made by the Department of Government Efficiency are threatening operations of key programs such as Social Security, but Trump actually has ordered that program recipients be provided benefits as usual.
"Trump's plans to implement the rule have drawn aggressive pushback from labor groups," the report said, citing the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, who have sued to restore protections for their dues-paying members.
