{"id":1282,"date":"2025-06-04T19:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:02:20","slug":"opms-hiring-plan-includes-blatant-loyalty-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/06\/04\/opms-hiring-plan-includes-blatant-loyalty-test\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM\u2019s hiring plan includes \u2018blatant loyalty test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Executive published another article by Erich Wagner titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2025\/06\/lynch-opms-hiring-plan-includes-blatant-loyalty-test\/405740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cLynch: OPM\u2019s hiring plan includes \u2018blatant loyalty test\u201d<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This is again about the OPM new \u201cHiring Plan\u201d released last week. \u201cSuch a loyalty test is antithetical to the concept of an expert, nonpartisan civil service and will only serve to degrade and politicize the services Americans need from their government,\u201d wrote Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., the panel\u2019s acting ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lynch blasted the new essay questions which are part of the Hiring Plan as an effort to politicize the federal workforce.\u00a0 The administration has reinstated and renamed Schedule F, an initiative to strip tens of thousands of career employees in \u201cpolicy-related\u201d positions of their civil service protections and replace them with political appointees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initiative to strip tens of thousands of career employees in policy-related positions of their civil service protections and replace them with political appointees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/2025-06-02-OPM-Hiring-Plan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}