FMA National President Craig Carter joined Senior Executives Association President Marcus Hill in a joint interview with Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson earlier this week on the expected return of Schedule F to the federal workforce. The column is live on the Washington Post's website here, and will run in the print edition on Saturday, December 21.

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Most civil servants are worried about what the Trump administration is going to do with respect to a new (and potentially improved) Schedule F, especially as its appointees and associates attempt to ‘deconstruct’ the administrative state.

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The new president will have a mighty big chore in the spring of 2025: devising a new management agenda.

The people just don’t think government works for them. Harris and Trump supporters agreed on one thing in a recent poll: exactly 52% of both groups said the country had big problems—and that they were unfixable.

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On September 18, 2023, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published proposed regulations in the Federal Register to reinforce and clarify important civil service protections for federal employees who may shift from the competitive service to the excepted service or from one excepted service schedule to another. FMA National President Craig Carter submitted comments on behalf of our association strongly supporting the proposed rule and urged OPM to finalize the new regulations as expediently as possible.

A hallmark of America’s civil service is the foundational, fundamental understanding that federal employees swear an oath to the Constitution and provide services to all Americans, regardless of political party. The federal government cannot function effectively without this nonpolitical civil service capable of preserving institutional memory and competence across administrations. Dating back to the Pendleton Act of 1883, which ended the spoils system, America’s civil service has been governed by statutes and rules aimed at preserving a federal employee’s right to due process, as protected by the Constitution.