Friday, February 6, 2026
Day 383
1 documented win
Schedule Policy/Career civil-service rule
The win
OPM finalized the rule implementing the Day-1 workforce order: policy-influencing jobs can be held accountable, ending the “you can’t fire them” version of the civil service for that slice of the org chart.
For Americans
Elected presidents are supposed to be able to staff the government they ran on. Voters who wanted a different bureaucracy get more than a press secretary.