Political Quotes

“I include in the Record two articles: an editorial in the Washington Post endorsing this bill and delineating the issue, and an article in Newsweek doing the same. [From the Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2022] Opinion: Congress Must Prevent Another Trumpian Attempt To Purge the Government (By the Editorial Board) It might sound like an innocuous change to the structure of the federal workforce: creating a category of employee, known as ``Schedule F,'' for positions related to ``policy- determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating.'' Yet, this change threatens to politicize the underappreciated ranks of those who keep the country's government running--the nation's professional civil service. President Donald Trump created the Schedule F designation by executive order near the end of his term, just ahead of the 2020 election. The order would have removed long-held protections from tens of thousands of career bureaucrats, making them easier to dismiss. That would give the president vast powers to reshape the federal government at will--and could politicize positions long treated as nonpartisan and merit-based. The Trump administration attempted unsuccessfully to rush through the change before the end of its term, and, upon taking office, President Biden immediately rescinded the order. But, according to a troubling recent report from Axios's Jonathan Swan, Mr.…”