A long-held meme says a civil service job is a job for life. The Trump Administration appears to be challenging that concept with Schedule Policy/Career, formerly known as Schedule F. The policy aims to give power to the president to remove former civil service protections and make federal workers easier to dismiss.
This policy could potentially have dire consequences for the estimated 140,000 federal workers who live in Montgomery County, as Schedule F is seen by some as the equivalent of a loyalty oath.
On Wednesday, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen questioned the nominee for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought.
As founder of the political action committee Center for Renewing America, Vought said in October: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
Here is an exchange between Van Hollen and Vought from his Senate hearing.
Vought served as acting head of the OMB from 2019-2020 in the previous Trump Administration. Van Hollen was elected to the Senate in 2017. Previous to that he represented Montgomery County’s 8th District in the U.S. Congress.
