Feds - chedule F? (re: Heritage Found story in NYT)

[nothingcontroversial]

So, here's a gift link to an article in the NYT. It's in interview with Kevin Roberts, the new leader of the Heritage Foundation.

link

In the article, Roberts advocates for a "return to Trumpism" and also for "Schedule F" in regards to the federal workforce.

Does Schedule F get talked about a lot? Is this a new pro-Trump talking point? This is the first time that I have ever heard of this. 

[Bernadine]

I’ve heard about the plan and it makes me extremely nervous.

ETA- I haven’t heard anyone at work mention it.

[ssmjlm]

I can’t read the article, but the federal govt has never recovered from the Reagan era. People who don’t have the background to understand the inner workings of the agencies shouldn’t be making decisions.

Everyone thinks industry salaries are on par or less than feds. LOL for days. I negotiate federal contracts. They’re making a shit-ton more than we are.

Also, remember when Gingrich furloughed the govt for weeks. And then benefit checks stopped and suddenly constituents were mad and paying attention? That’s what will happen.

[charlatti]

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU0.Akvj.UmHDuZH5DmZf&smid=url-share

[neeps]

I read this earlier and the entire interview is horrible.

Especially this:

“People will lose their jobs. Hopefully their lives are able to flourish in spite of that. Buildings will be shut down. Hopefully they can be repurposed for private industry. But the administrative state — most importantly, what we’re trying to destroy is the political influence it has over individual American sovereignty, and the only way to do that, or one of the ways to do that, is to diminish the number of unelected bureaucrats who are wielding that power instead of Congress.”

[underwaterrhymes]

These people are fucking hideous.

[rubytue]

In the waning days of the Trump administration, there was talk of schedule F. I haven’t heard more about it in years. I’m in a technical policy position at an independent agency (you know… designed to be outside of political influence, though not really),

That said… some of what he was saying about congress, I can’t disagree.