The Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation Act of 2025 (MERIT Act) aims to overhaul the processes surrounding the removal of federal employees due to performance issues or misconduct, streamlining procedures to facilitate quicker and more effective disciplinary actions. The act repeals existing rules governing performance-based actions and introduces new criteria for determining when employees can be disciplined or terminated, allowing agencies to consider factors such as the severity of misconduct and an employee's past performance.