Biden Axes Trump’s EO That Made It Easier To Fire Career Scientists

By Kelly Lienhard / January 22, 2021 at 4:30 PM
President Joe Biden on Friday (Jan. 22) revoked the Trump administration’s controversial executive order setting up a new category of federal employees that would have made it easier to terminate or transfer civil servants and career scientists and replace them with employees friendly to administration policies. Biden issued his own executive order that eliminates the so-called new Schedule F category of federal employees as part of his goal to protect and empower federal employees. A White House fact sheet says...


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