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Civil Service and Project 2025
Liz VanDerwerken, proactive root director for Mormon Women for Ethical Government, recently spoke with Erica Newland, counsel at Protect Democracy, about broad reforms to the civil service proposed in Project 2025. Here is a summary of their conversation. What is the civil service? The civil service is the civilian workforce of the federal government. For example, engineers at the Environmental Protection Agency and your local mail carrier in the U.S. Postal Service are civil servants. Civil servants most often keep their jobs when a presidential administration changes, while political appointees are chosen by elected officials and change with administrations. For example, a newly elected U.S. president will appoint a new…
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Some Ethical Questions on Project 2025
In our recent Project 2025 informational post on social media, we introduced some of the ideas proposed by Project 2025 as well as the concerns this proposal raises. As Mormon Women for Ethical Government, we believe diversity of thought is an important ingredient in a vibrant democracy. A healthy democracy follows deliberative processes that facilitate productive disagreement and allow voters to have their voices heard, provide input and feedback to influence legislation, and participate in a robust public system that promotes broad representation of views. A basic overview of Project 2025 Project 2025, a document outlining a sweeping reform of American government, has been created and published by the Heritage…
