New US civil service rules look to prevent a future Trump purge of federal workers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees -- the largest labour union representing federal workers -- also praised Mr Biden for issuing the new regulations in a statement of his own on Thursday.
54% : The regulations state that a federal worker's civil service protections can't be removed by reclassifying them into a different personnel schedule and specifically classify "employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating positions" as non-career political appointees -- not civil servants.
51% : According to experts, this could have encompassed most of the non-partisan experts -- scientists, doctors, lawyers, economists -- who are supposed to advise and inform policymakers in a way that is fact-driven and devoid of politics.
48% : In a statement, Mr Biden said his administration was rolling out new "protections for 2.2 million career civil servants from political interference" for the purpose of ensuring that federal workers "can carry out their responsibilities in the best interest of the American people".

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