A little-noticed federal regulation was finalized last week that was a tacit admission by the Biden administration that the entrenched liberal bureaucracy in the federal government is real and must be protected at all costs.
Last week, the Office of Personnel Management, an executive branch agency that oversees the personnel that staff the federal government, finalized a rule that is aimed at preventing any future president or administration from reclassifying the thousands of bureaucrats who work in federal agencies to make them more accountable to the democratically elected president.
The regulation was drafted as a response to an executive order that was signed in the last few months of the Trump administration that would have reclassified thousands of federal employees who work in policy positions as political appointees and thus make them accountable to the president.
The executive order, which would have created a new category of federal employment called Schedule F, would h …