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17. Nope. The only political appointee position at BLS is the Commissioner

Reply to the_liberal_grandpa (Reply #14)

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:49 AM

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That position has remained vacant since the last Commissioner was fired almost a year ago. The remaining employees at BLS are civil service employees who continue to have civil service protections. Even after the Supreme Court decision, those civil service protections still hold for those hired through the civil service system.

From Google AI:

No, the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Slaughter did not allow for the unilateral firing of standard civil service workers.The ruling specifically applies to the heads of independent regulatory agencies and multi-member boards (such as the Federal Trade Commission), overturning a 91-year-old precedent to allow the president to remove these commissioners at will without needing to prove "cause". The only exception to this ruling was the Federal Reserve Board.

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