"Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed rule, “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service.” As health organizations, we urge you not to finalize this proposal to reclassify policy-influencing employees. It has the potential to affect huge swaths of the federal workforce, and when taken in the context of administration-wide efforts to cut staff at federal departments and agencies, adds to the grave risk of depleting expertise that people across the country rely on to lead healthy lives."
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