Trump Strips Biden’s Protections for Federal Workers

On Monday, January 20, 2025, after taking the oath of office, Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders to try to undo a lot of the orders issued by the Biden administration.

Many of these orders will be challenged, including the order Trump issued to remove Biden’s protections for federal workers.

This would include Biden allowing many federal workers to continue to work from home after COVID restrictions were removed.

Get Back to Work

One of the ways Trump will be able to trim government spending is by cracking down on federal hiring.

To that point, Trump issued a hiring freeze as well as new hiring rules and a mandate for federal workers to return to their offices.

Shocking reports surfaced over the last few weeks regarding the staggering number of offices that remain empty even though taxpayers are footing the bill for leases.

Trump also removed some of the obstacles that prevented career senior executives in the government from being able to be dismissed.

Trump’s order, in part, stated, “There have been numerous and well-documented cases of career Federal employees resisting and undermining the policies and directives of their executive leadership.

“Principles of good administration, therefore, necessitate action to restore accountability to the career civil service.”

This will be immediately challenged, as was made clear by Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees.

Kelley stated, “President Trump’s order is a blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government by eliminating employees’ due process rights so they can be fired for political reasons.

“This unprecedented assertion of executive power will create an army of sycophants beholden only to Donald Trump, not the Constitution or the American people.”

Trump delivered on a lot of his promises on day one with these orders, but as stated above and in previous reports, most of these orders are going to be challenged and I expect Trump to lose most of them, including the order to reverse Biden’s ban on new gas and oil leasing projects.

This administration will find itself in court for most of the next four years trying to enforce these orders, so just keep your expectations low in terms of Trump actually delivering what he promised because of the legal challenges he will face.

Remember, Biden has appointed more than 250 new judges to the judiciary, so Trump will likely to have to go to the Supreme Court for any hope of success in most of these cases. Even then, based on precedent and previous Court rulings, he will be in for the fight of his life.