Back in April, the advocate of the Department of Justice, Representing the government in the case of Arez Revenne was in the court. Kilmar Abrego GarciaThe person who accidentally deported Al Salvador to the government.

The judge gave Reveni with questions: How was Abrego Garcia seized? Law enforcement officers had to take him under his car?

“So, your honor, my answer in response to many of these questions is going to be disappointing,” Revenne replied. “I am also disappointed that I have no answer to many of these questions.”

The judge followed another question: Why did the United States Abrego Garcia not get back?

“Your honor, I would say, for the awareness of the court, that when this matter landed on my desk, the first thing I did, my customers were asked,” Reveney replied. ” “I haven’t found, till date, an answer that I find satisfactory.”

Reuveni was Keep on leave The next day and later that month opened fire. He has appealed for his termination.

Now the critics of President Trump say that the case of Revenee gives an example that what will happen if the Trump administration strongly prevails in its efforts to reopen the civil service.

Changing long -lasting criteria around civil service

Five months in his second term, Trump has been changing permanent criteria around federal employees and firing for a long time as he claims more control over those working with his agenda.

A major part of this change is the office of the proposed rule of personnel management “Demonstration, accountability and accountability improvement in civil service“This will allow the administration to transfer thousands of civil servants to a new category of employees who will serve in the President’s happiness.

The administration says it is part of making the bureaucracy more efficient and more accountable.

The President’s critics say that Trump is politicizing the civil service, and they warns results for American people.

Focus on “policy-affected” jobs

As a civil servant, Revennei had strong job security, including the right to the fixed process. The federal law has to undergo several steps before taking disciplinary action to the government, including providing notice to employees and providing an opportunity to respond.

But the Trump administration has ignored those steps in Revenne’s case, fired to him after less than two weeks of his appearance in court. The Department of Justice refused to comment on his case.

Now, Under the proposed rule of administrationFederal employees in jobs are considered “policy-affected”, those security may lose together.

Stacey Young, who works in the Department of Justice for 18 years before resigning at the end of January, says, “People will not need any reason to firing.”

Young says that if federal employees can be removed on the basis of political when, American people will suffer. She says that she would be security that enables “luxurious, worthy people” to help the American public.

Concern for government numbers crunches

Even in the corners of the government which appear far from politics, there are concerns about the changes bringing in Trump Civil Services.

Erica Groshen, who served as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Bureau in the Obama administration, called economists, statistics and others affectionately, tracking employment, inflation, wages and other economic indicators “The best data narda.”

Even though they spend their day in crunching numbers, they worry that they may also be among those who have turned into employees.

She cannot find out what administration means when it says that it is planning to revive people in “policy-affected” positions.

“This is not specific. Many of these words are open to interpretation,” Groshen says. “Does BLS affect the policy? Yes, its purpose is.”

The Federal Reserve uses your data when choosing to increase or reduce interest rates. Social security benefits of retired people are adjusted consumer price IndexThe tenth of one percent of the tenth of the point may have a billion $ one billion overbearing or underpayments, says Groshen.

Outside the government, businesses write long -term contracts associated with the government’s inflation data and decide where to establish production facilities based on the availability of wages and workforce.

Realizing all this, Groshen says, a common belief that people collecting, processing and reporting are freeing it from political intervention. Even the perception that politics can be manipulated by politics.

“The trustedness of the information will be lost,” Groshen says, with a huge implication for an economy, which requires reliable data to stay on the track.

Neither BLS nor Personnel Management Office answered the NPR questions whether the employees of BLS or other statistical agencies could be one of the people revived under the rule.

Emphasized to execute the President’s agenda

Trump established this category of late Vile-Wil employees in his first term, called it schedule F. After President Biden exposed the attempt, Trump brought it back to the office on his first day, named it Schedule Policy/Career.

During the hearing of his confirmation in January, Management and Budget Director Russell said, “It is to ensure that the administration, the President, is working for them who are actually going to perform the policies that he is running, that he is artistic.” “We think this is an important fundamental principle, and this does not mean that we have any intention of using it to set career civil servants on fire.”

But making people on fire is actually a declared goal.

The administration in the proposed rule suggests that the construction of the schedule policy/career will “allow the employees to quickly remove the employees who are engaged in misconduct, perform poorly, or deliberately influence the President’s instructions and weaken the democratic process.”

Where it becomes complicated, it is that the action taken by an employee can appear separately for separate people, Don Ketle, the former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, which opposed the change.

Ketal said, “Things that can see an observer such as slowing or sabotaging someone can actually be a valid effort to follow an employee … other standards of accountability,” kettle, such as laws and rules, constitution and professional morality.

Since 19th century “a level of sycophancy” has not been seen

Under the proposed rule, agencies have to prepare a list of posts that can be transferred to schedule policy/career. Trump himself will make the final call. The administration estimates that some 50,000 federal employees may be rearfined.

Stacey Young worked in the Department of Justice for 18 years before resigning in January. He is the founder and executive director of the justice connection, focused on helping the employees of the Department of Justice to navigate the challenges in the second term of Trump.

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Youth, former government lawyers, justice department are expected to be more impressed than other agencies. She warns that converting lawyers into at-wil employees will completely change the nature of the department.

“It will demand a level of sycophancy that we have not seen since the 19th century,” she says.

Already, Young says, she hears every day that people are being asked to do things that are unprofessional, immoral, even illegal, or are being asked to resign. She says that Reuvene’s case shows what can happen if they can refuse.

“Shortly after standing in court, he was fired and the truth was told,” says Young.

In response to NPR questions, justice department spokesman Chad Gilamartin wrote: “DOJ lawyers are expected to maintain all legal and moral duties, including enthusiastic defense of our nation’s interests, enforcement of civil and criminal laws and strong defense of action against the policies and legal challenges.”

Only hiring “patriotic Americans”

The Trump administration is also understanding how it hits people, putting out A new hiring plan It states that “will bring only the most talented, competent and patriotic Americans into the workforce”. ,

The scheme instructs agencies to prevent the use of demographic data in hiring and focus on the qualifications, capacity and enthusiasm of applicants for Trump’s policies instead.

“How will you help in furthering the executive orders and policy priorities of the President in this role?” A new essay asks questions that most of the job applicants will have to answer. “Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are important to you, and explain how you will help apply them if you are hired.”

Ketal does not think that asking such a question makes it understandable for political government roles.

“You are not hiring people to conduct an executive order of a particular president,” says kettle. It is expected that we need, not loyalty to a particular administration. “