Biden administration rule makes firing federal workers harder as Trump promises 'deep state' revamp

President Biden's administration is implementing a new rule to make it more difficult to fire federal workers as former President Trump promises to revamp the workforce to weed out the "deep state."

Early Thursday, the White House released a statement from the Democratic incumbent president regarding "the final rule to protect nonpartisan civil servants."

Biden said his administration was announcing "protections for 2.2 million career civil servants from political interference, to guarantee that they can carry out their responsibilities in the best interest of the American people."

"Day in and day out, career civil servants provide the expertise and continuity necessary for our democracy to function," the statement said. "They provide Americans with life-saving and life-changing services and put opportunity within reach for millions. That’s why since taking office, I have worked to strengthen, empower, and rebuild our career workforce."

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Biden deemed the rule to be "a step toward combatting corruption and partisan interference to ensure civil servants are able to focus on the most important task at hand: delivering for the American people."

The Office of Personnel Management, the government's chief human resources agency, on Thursday implemented new regulations barring career civil servants from being reclassified as political appointees, or as other at-will workers, who are more easily dismissed from their jobs. It comes in response to "Schedule F," an executive order Trump issued in 2020 that sought to allow for reclassifying tens of thousands of the 2.2 million federal employees and thus reduce their job security protections, according to the