Admin Rule Protects Career Scientists As Conservatives Seek To Revive Trump Policy

The Biden administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a final rule aiming to protect civil service employees and career scientists at agencies like FDA and HHS from politically motivated firing, reversing a Trump-era policy, but the original policy is still advocated by conservative groups looking ahead to the 2024 election. The former Trump administration had tried to move many career employees into a new civil service category under which they could have been fired and replaced with political...