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Meghan Gallo
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Behavioral Neuroscientist
Post Doctoral Researcher, Kellendonk Lab
Columbia University/NYS Psychiatric Institute
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Interested in #aging, early life #stress, #dopamine, #acetylcholine, #learning & #decisionmaking
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Beautiful piece! Great work!
July 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Every single scientist in America should submit a comment saying this is bad. That's you! You can do it! You should. It's easy. Scientists are good writers.

This is the Schedule F attack on the civil service, now renamed Schedule P-C by Trump. History here

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Is Schedule Policy/Career a Risk for Federal Statistical Agencies? 4/23/25 Erica L. Groshen, Cornell University--ILR Introduction This brief examines the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career, a proposed change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump administration (then called “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees, making them easier to remove from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a “rule”) to govern its implementation. The impetus for this brief is that on April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule Policy/Career. Background on Schedule Policy/Career • Original Effort: On October 21, 2020, the Trump administration introduced Executive Order 13957, which created "Schedule F" within the civil service. This aimed to reclassify federal employees in positions of a "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policyadvocating character." The stated goal was to increase agency head flexibility and accountability. • Biden Administration Rescission: The Biden administration rescinded Schedule F via Executive Order 14003 on January 22, 2021. In April 2024, the Biden administration adopted a regulation named "Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles" that allows employees to keep existing job protections even if their positions were reclassified, preventing most of the effects of a reinstatement of Schedule F. • Current Status: On January 20, 2025, the second Trump administration issued Executive Order 14171 to implement similar policies to Schedule F, now referred to as "Schedule Policy/Career." This order is titled "Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce." The Biden Administration’s rule about reclassifying employees delayed implementation of the new order by several months. On April 2…
May 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM