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Committee tussles over workforce reductions, appeals consolidation and whistleblower protections
Summary
Ranking members pressed OPM Director Scott Cooper on the loss of roughly 300,000 federal employees, effects on morale and recruitment, the reclassification known as the 'policy career' rule, and a proposal to shift certain appeal processes into OPM rather than the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Democrats and Republicans on the House Appropriations Subcommittee sparred over whether OPM has aided or should correct the administration’s workforce reductions and on what appeals and whistleblower protections will look like under proposed rule changes.
Ranking Member Hoyer opened the hearing by citing OMB director Russell Vought’s public remarks — quoted in committee as urging actions that would leave bureaucrats 'traumatically affected' — and said those remarks and other policies have driven departures and harmed recruitment. Hoyer argued the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey’s (FEVS) cancellation and reclassification proposals (formerly discussed as 'Schedule F' and referred in…
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