House votes to shield federal workers from Trump 2.0 'drain the swamp' plan

Republicans say any new president has the right to remove federal employees who resist new policies from an incoming administration.

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Just before Trump left office, he created a new Schedule F for tens of thousands of federal workers, which would make them at-will employees and thus easier to remove. President Biden scrapped that order, but Democrats this week called up their legislation in order to protect federal workers from any White House that tries that move again.

"Employees transferred to Schedule F would have been stripped of workplace protections and converted to at-will employees," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said on the House floor in support of the Democrats’ restrictions. "If the order had been fully implemented, it could have harmed tens of thousands of federal employees."