President Biden has nominated for a new post Henry Kerner, the Trump-appointed watchdog investigator who issued warnings to two senior Biden officials over inappropriate uses of their offices for political purposes
he federal watchdog who has issued warnings to two senior White House officials over inappropriate uses of their offices for political purposes was formallyfor a new post on July 12. If approved by the Senate, the nomination would move Henry Kerner, the current head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, to a more senior role, and allow President Joe Biden to name a new person to the position.
The Merit Systems Protection Board was created in 1978 as part of a massive overhaul of the civil service led by President Jimmy Carter that was designed to protect the federal workforce from political retaliation and interference. The three-person, bipartisan board hears appeals from federal employees who believe they’ve been targeted by arbitrary or politically-motivated actions.
Kerner said that while he’s been in the role running the Office of Special Counsel, he’s wanted to show that the office “can do independent, objective, nonpartisan and fair investigations, and we can treat everyone that way.” By a quirk of the federal pay scales, he’d end up taking a pay cut in the new post. His current role pays $168,000 and as a member of the Merit Service Protection Board he’d earn $158,000, he said.
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