Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists
Chief Information Officers across the US federal government face increased job uncertainty as the Trump administration recommends agencies reclassify these positions, potentially making them political appointees.issued yesterday, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management , Charles Ezell, said that these CIOs are no longer seen as purely"impartial and apolitical technocrats"; instead, their role now involves policy-making on politically charged issues.
"The administration rightly expects that agency CIOs will be on the front lines of articulating and implementing such policies, both within government and before the general public." "In recent years … there have been numerous and well-documented cases of career Federal employees resisting and undermining the policies and directives of their executive leadership," the executive order claimed."Principles of good administration, therefore, necessitate action to restore accountability to the career civil service, beginning with positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.
" does not spend his days writing complex lines of code, setting up secure networks, or performing other 'highly technical' tasks," Ezell continued."Instead, he crafts and effectuates policy, and sets and deploys his budget, based on his administration's priorities."
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