NARFE Files Suit to Preserve Merit-Based Civil Service and Sues Over Elon Musk’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hack of Americans’ Private Data

NARFE has filed suit in the U.S. District Court to block the implementation of Executive Order 14171 creating Schedule Policy/Career (or Schedule P/C, formerly known as Schedule F). “Schedule P/C would erode of eliminate merit-based civil service protections that ensure the basic operation of government is carried out by nonpartisan, professional public servants instead of political loyalists,” says Bill Shackelford, NARFE’s national president. For more information, click here.

NARFE, along with a coalition of labor unions representing over two million workers, also filed suit to stop Elon Musk’s data heist inside three separate federal agencies under the guise of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Steamrolling into sensitive government record systems has led to a massive data breach that threatens to upend how these critical systems are maintained and seriously compromises the safety and security of personal identifying information for Americans all across the country,” the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, reads. “It also violates federal law.” To learn more, click here.