At the top of former President Trump’s 2024 agenda is reinstituting an executive order which would reclassify thousands of federal employees involved in policy decisions, making it much easier for a president to fire them.
“The American people should be shocked to learn that a twice impeached, and now indicted, former president is recycling his plans to strip the federal workforce of its independence and reshape the entire federal government into his own personal political machine,” Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., whose district is home to many federal employees, said in a statement. “Donald Trump doesn’t want a government of, by, and for the people. He wants a government of, by, and for Donald Trump.
But, he added, he would prefer to see Congress enact legislation rather than Trump act purely from executive action should he be elected next year. On the surface, it’s unlikely such changes could advance through a Senate that requires 60 votes on most legislative efforts. But Vought said much of the agenda can be completed through executive power alone, listing Schedule F, changing declassification standards, the background check process for security clearances or even the review process for employee performance. He said it’s important to understand “the levers that you have that are not legal changes.
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