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The Biden "rule" is in an executive order. Last I checked, EOs aren't mentioned in the US Constitution.

Here is an EO for ya: "All previous executive orders are hereby rescinded"

The resulting scrum would be the highest form of entertainment attempted by The Blob.

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Nov 11Liked by Jason Powers

NPR says Schedule F employees are exempt from country’s traditional “merit based” civil service. They add that Biden put in a “rule” that prevents overhauling the federal workforce for “ideological” reasons. How about cutting jobs due to budgetary constraints? Hard to argue against that reasoning especially when taxpayers must tighten their belts because of inflation. https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/11/agency-agency-look-trumps-plan-overhaul-government/400885/

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Vivek found a way around that ideological trope. You CANNOT target any singular person or group, but you can just wholesale cut. Eliminate an entire section or roll back staffing by 25%....

Cut do a salary reduction - back to 2020 levels. Gotta run the kitchen sink at them.

These Fed Employees are lawyering up. What a world.

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And my favorite strategy is to relocate agencies out of DC to flyover country!

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