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Editor: Ron Maclean

Fail to Deliver to the People
Project 2025 proposals will:

Undermine Government’s Ability to Deliver for People

Civil servants are federal employees who work and live in all 50 states — the more than 2 million people who keep our air clean, water safe, consumers protected, and mail delivered. Attacks on the nation’s civil service are attacks on the government’s ability to work for the people.

Below is “How They’d Do It.” (Click a topic for the details)

Project 2025 would have a future president reissue the Trump administration’s Schedule F executive order to make it easier to fire federal employees.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “The Trump Administration issued Executive Order 1395724 to make career professionals in positions that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition but who discharge significant duties and exercise significant discretion in formulating and implementing executive branch policy and programs an exception to the com- petitive hiring rules and examinations for career positions under a new Schedule F. It ordered the Director of OPM and agency heads to set procedures to prepare lists of such confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating positions and prepare procedures to create exceptions from civil service rules when careerists hold such positions, from which they can relocate back to the regular civil service after such service. The order was subsequently reversed by President Biden25 at the demand of the civil service associations and unions. >>>It should be reinstated<<<, but SES responsibility should come first." – – – – – – – – TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM "Mandate for Leadership" p. 80-81
While the vast majority of civil servants already live and work outside of Washington, D.C., Project 2025 still proposes to relocate D.C.-based offices in an effort to box out long-serving, nonpartisan experts.
Of the 2.2 million federal employees, most already do not work in Washington, D.C. Still, we know that many of our nation’s foremost experts in their respective fields are situated in Washington, D.C., serving the American people every day at federal agencies. – – – – – – – – In 2019, the Trump administration relocated the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to Colorado, resulting in 77% of the bureau’s employees resigning from their positions. If federal agencies are relocated without thoughtful consideration and public input, critical agencies could lose major sects of their labor force, limiting the ability of the federal government to deliver for the people it is meant to serve.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “BLM headquarters belongs in the American West… the Trump Administration’s decision to relocate BLM headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the West was the epitome of good governance” – – – – – – – – TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM “Mandate for Leadership” p. 524, also read page 535.
Project 2025 would issue problematic civil service tests for prospective federal employees.
The special interests behind Project 2025 want to create their own pipeline for important roles within our federal government, and they have already created a personnel database for those who would like to be considered for positions during a future administration. Registration for this database includes a questionnaire which evaluates candidates through ideologically biased questions. – – – – – – – – The special interests behind Project 2025 want to create their own pipeline for important roles within our federal government, and they have already created a personnel database for those who would like to be considered for positions during a future administration. Registration for this database includes a questionnaire which evaluates candidates through ideologically biased questions. – – – – – – – – In addition to revoking clearances, Project 2025 would empower the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to expedite the issuance of security clearances to those deemed necessary to meet the administration’s “mission needs.” – – – – – – – – Expediting the issuance of security clearances paves way for more unqualified and inept leaders to be charged with our nation’s most sensitive national security matters. Take Jared Kushner: when two national expert security specialists refused to issue him a clearance (due to concerns of foreign influence over him), the Trump administration overruled their expertise and gave him one anyway.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “Pillar II is a personnel database that allows candidates to build their own professional profiles and our coalition members to review and voice their recommendations. These recommendations will then be collated and shared with the President- elect’s team, greatly streamlining the appointment process.” – – – – – – – – TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM “Mandate for Leadership” p. xiv
Project 2025 would remove civil servants’ security clearances and politicize the granting of clearances.
stions. – – – – – – – – The special interests behind Project 2025 want to create their own pipeline for important roles within our federal government, and they have already created a personnel database for those who would like to be considered for positions during a future administration. Registration for this database includes a questionnaire which evaluates candidates through ideologically biased questions. – – – – – – – – In addition to revoking clearances, Project 2025 would empower the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to expedite the issuance of security clearances to those deemed necessary to meet the administration’s “mission needs.” – – – – – – – – Expediting the issuance of security clearances paves way for more unqualified and inept leaders to be charged with our nation’s most sensitive national security matters. Take Jared Kushner: when two national expert security specialists refused to issue him a clearance (due to concerns of foreign influence over him), the Trump administration overruled their expertise and gave him one anyway.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any former Directors, Deputy Directors, or other senior intelligence officials who discuss their work in the press or on social media without prior clearance from the current Director.” – – – – – – – – TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM “Mandate for Leadership” p. 213
This People’s Guide [1] only begins to catalog the people and communities who would be harmed if a future presidential administration began to implement Project 2025’s proposals. Businesses and industry across the country could be harmed not just from the lack of data collection discussed above, but also from proposals to politicize the Federal Reserve or to restrict free trade. Our country’s national security itself, too, is threatened by proposals to concentrate military decisionmaking, further undermine our intelligence agencies, or promote isolationist policies. – – – – – – – – We continue to analyze these policies and their harms to people, and expect to release updated versions of the People’s Guide with reports on the threats that would make it harder to run a business, put our security at risk, and more. Click here to sign up to receive the updated reports directly in your inbox.
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