@tarheel0910 an interesting read
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/inside-project-2025s-plan-to-reprogram-the-government/ says
"Mandate for Leadership’s final set of tactics for hijacking the administrative state have to do with limiting or evading congressional oversight. Several chapters, for instance, describe how the administration can manipulate the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by installing political appointees in key agency leadership positions—a gambit whose practical effect is to enable politically loyal personnel to carry out official agency business without being subjected to the lengthy, and potentially embarrassing, Senate confirmation process."
Schedule F is "grounded in a provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act that exempted from civil service protections any employee “whose position has been determined to be of confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.” And it takes and extremely broad intepretation of that. He issued it as an executive order a week before the last election when he finally realized lots of his officials were disobeying his whims. h
ere is the exec order. Biden revoked it.
Regarding congress, a bill,
here, was actually proposed to help prevent the schedule F executive order from happening, but has gone nowhere. So it is clearly a big enough deal that people (Dems) are trying to create some protection that Congress can act on.