Trump will take away protections for government workers, Miller said

President-elect Donald J. Trump is planning a series of executive orders during his first day in office, including removing job protections for government workers, his top policy adviser told members of Congress. Republicans on Sunday, according to two people. the case.

In a phone call with a few dozen Republicans on Sunday, Stephen Miller, Trump’s homeland security adviser and White House deputy chief of staff who overseeing the policy, Mr. Trump on energy, immigration and the federal government. employee. The call was first reported by website Punchbowl and confirmed by two people who spoke about the conversation.

A Trump spokesman did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Mr Trump has said he plans to sign about 100 executive orders in his first day in office, with more to come within hours of his swearing-in on Monday.

This includes a major move to overhaul federal workplace regulations, which is consistent with various promises made by Mr. Trump during the campaign.

Mr. Miller described, while providing little detail, the executive order to rescind President Biden’s actions to impose “diversity, equality and inclusion” requirements at federal agencies, and restore protections for transgender people who receive services. -some government services.

Mr. Trump also plans to roll back an order he issued during his first term to create a new category of federal workers, known as Schedule F, which does not have the same job protections as federal workers. – a working government, which should be paid according to merit and cannot be removed at random. This would allow his administration to move large numbers of federal employees to a new status where it would retain more control, including the ability to hire and fire them more easily. The order is important because Mr. Trump and Mr. Miller share a deep hatred for large parts of the federal bureaucracy, which the president-elect often refers to as the “deep state.”

Mr. Trump is also planning a series of orders related to energy policy, most of which stem from promises to encourage offshore drilling and end the tax credit for electric vehicles, as well as freeze spending on the climate policy of Mr. Biden.

And on immigration, as reported by The New York Times, Mr. Trump plans to designate drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations”; to declare a border emergency that would allow him to go around Congress and raise money and possibly source troops for the border; and declare a public health emergency to seal borders as the administration did during the coronavirus pandemic. It is also expected to reduce asylum funding and increase detentions and deportations.

Mr. Miller presided over the executive order process during the transition, aiming for as much secrecy as possible and only opening internal doors over time to allow various agency heads to see some of the work. He employed a team of lawyers to investigate them.

At his rally at Capital One Arena on Sunday afternoon, Mr Trump told the crowd that the executive order would make them “very happy”.

He said he rejected efforts by some advisers to delay the executive order on Day 1, saying he wanted to give the country an action-packed first day and week in office.

Mr. Trump also said he plans to quickly release classified files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

And he previewed future funding for people convicted of the attack on the Capitol by pro-Trump mobs on January 6, 2021. He called them “hostages,” as he did during the campaign.