The Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation Act of 2025, known as the MERIT Act, aims to overhaul the processes for removing federal employees due to performance issues or misconduct. The legislation seeks to streamline these procedures while ensuring that employees retain certain rights throughout the process. Among the key provisions, the MERIT Act repeals existing performance-based removal procedures and introduces new standards that allow agencies to take adverse actions based on a preponderance of evidence regarding an employee's performance or conduct.