Conservative Think Tanks Are Preparing a List of 20K Potential Political Appointees in Hopes

[James48]

Conservative Think Tanks Are Preparing a List of 20K Potential Political Appointees in Hopes of Reviving Schedule F

A coalition led by the Heritage Foundation has launched a massive recruitment effort that would grow the ranks of federal political appointees from 4,000 to 20,000 in the next Republican presidential administration.

By ERICH WAGNER, http://govexec.com/

Link:
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2023/04/conservative-think-tanks-are-preparing-list-20k-potential-political-appointees-hopes-reviving-schedule-f/385545/

A coalition of conservative activist groups last week launched a massive recruitment campaign for prospective political appointees in the next Republican presidential administration and joined the growing GOP chorus calling for reinstatement of Schedule F.

Project 2025, a Republican presidential transition project led by the Heritage Foundation, seeks to create a database of up to 20,000 potential hires into the next Republican presidential administration by the end of 2024. The effort’s launch was first reported by The New York Times and is being led by former Office of Personnel Management Chief of Staff Paul Dans and former Associate Director of Presidential Personnel Spencer Chretien.

If 20,000 seems like an unusually high number of candidates for the roughly 4,000 political appointees in the federal government, that’s because it is. That’s at least in part because, as part of a nearly 1,000-page policy document, the conservative groups joined the growing number of Republican officials, including former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who have endorsed reinstating Schedule F.

Schedule F was an abortive effort in the final months of the Trump administration to create a new job classification within the excepted service for federal workers in policy-related positions, transfer competitive service employees into the new category, and strip them of most civil service protections, effectively making them at-will employees. Although a few agencies had made preparations to implement the initiative, none were able to convert any employees before President Biden took office and rescinded the policy.

More: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2023/04/conservative-think-tanks-are-preparing-list-20k-potential-political-appointees-hopes-reviving-schedule-f/385545/

[Lovie777]

1. Vote against these assholes.............

[2naSalit]

2. Just one of the hidden dangers that could...

Serve to upend life in the country forever.

[dutch777]

3. Gotta see that list....good to know who the enemies of the state are!

[TeamProg]

4. Republicans want their own people to be disposable pawns. nt

[Grins]

5. THIS!!! Truly scary. And the D's response...

…..nothing.

And all those thousands will be vetted by the conservative Reich-wingers to make sure every one of them is, as Orwell described them:

“…those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.”

[live love laugh]

6. Apparently the appointee thing worked out well for them.

That is terrible news for us who have to deal with the consequences of their sabotage.

[Initech]

7. Fuck the Heritage Foundation! And the Federalist Society!

[Celerity]

9. and ALEC! an incredibly destructive RW force for the last 50 years now (founded in 1973)

[Renew Deal]

8. That's a whole lot more votes for Biden in VA

[Timeflyer]

10. Thanks for the warning--the rotten Heritage bunch never stops.

[keep_left]

11. Unlike most of the old-line "think" tanks on the right, the Heritage Foundation...

...has apparently decided in recent years to go fash. I first started noticing this on YouTube, where they post all sorts of execrable culture-war garbage that shows up in the "recommended videos" sidebar. Topics include such gems as "Moms React to Woke Children's Books". Then I did a little looking around, and it turns out that they started "adjusting" a lot of the language in their daily blast faxes ( not to mention their "journals" and "scholarship" ) to be much more Trump-friendly. Apparently that also includes sucking up to the Trump regime's worst ideas--like Schedule F--even when they are out of office.