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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

All right, scientists. 🧪 The Trump administration is trying to break scientific expertise in the civil service. This will affect #NIH program staff. Red 🚨. It's your job to submit comments by 5/23 saying that's a terrible idea! This group has info: www.friendsofbls.org/comment-temp...

Comment Template
COMMENT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All submissions must include the agency name and docket number or RIN for this rulemaking. Please arrange and identify your comments on the regulatory text by subpart and section number; if your comments relate to the supplementary information, please refer to the heading and page number. All comments received will be posted publicly without change, including any personal information provided. To ensure that your comments will be considered, you must submit them on or prior to May 23, 2025 at online to the Federal Register. Before finalizing this rule, OPM will consider all comments within the scope of the regulations received on or before the closing date for comments. OPM may make changes to the final rule after considering the comments received.

COMMENT STARTER: The example below is meant to get you started with your own comment. Feel free to use it with only minimal changes, to go a different direction, or anything in between. Because OPM has to consider each comment, unique comments add value to the process but all comments relevant to the proposed rule and grounded in thoughtful analysis or real experience are helpful.

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RE: Public Comment in Response to Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service [Docket No. OPM–2025–0004]

I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the effort to reclassify specific fe

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Every single scientist in America should submit a comment saying this is bad. That's you! You can do it! You should. It's easy. Scientists are good writers. This is the Schedule F attack on the civil service, now renamed Schedule P-C by Trump. History here static1.squarespace.com/static/5bedb...

Is Schedule Policy/Career a Risk for Federal Statistical Agencies?
4/23/25
Erica L. Groshen, Cornell University--ILR
Introduction
This brief examines the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career, a proposed
change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump
administration (then called “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees,
making them easier to remove from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a
“rule”) to govern its implementation. The impetus for this brief is that on April 23, 2025, the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule
Policy/Career.
Background on Schedule Policy/Career
• Original Effort: On October 21, 2020, the Trump administration introduced Executive Order
13957, which created "Schedule F" within the civil service. This aimed to reclassify federal
employees in positions of a "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policyadvocating character." The stated goal was to increase agency head flexibility and
accountability.
• Biden Administration Rescission: The Biden administration rescinded Schedule F via
Executive Order 14003 on January 22, 2021. In April 2024, the Biden administration adopted
a regulation named "Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles" that
allows employees to keep existing job protections even if their positions were reclassified,
preventing most of the effects of a reinstatement of Schedule F.
• Current Status: On January 20, 2025, the second Trump administration issued Executive
Order 14171 to implement similar policies to Schedule F, now referred to as "Schedule
Policy/Career." This order is titled "Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions
Within the Federal Workforce." The Biden Administration’s rule about reclassifying
employees delayed implementation of the new order by several months. On April 2…

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Dale @dalepoak.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Not a scientist, but I submitted comments: oakd.substack.com/p/comments-o...

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Comments on the Trump Administration's Proposed Rule: “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service”

The civil service will not be improved if this rule is implemented. It will become more political.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Friends of BLS has the best info we've seen on this. Check out their site. Any questions? Let us know! www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

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Schedule Policy/Career Rule is a Threat to Federal Statistical Agencies. Take Action Today. — The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is very concerned about the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career Rule, a proposed change to federal employment policy....

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