Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

President Trump issued an executive order creating Schedule F, a radical reclassification mechanism designed to strip civil service protections from approximately 50,000 federal workers in ‘policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating’ positions. The order would effectively transform these career civil servants into at-will political appointees, enabling direct presidential control over critical government functions. Despite initial resistance and being initially blocked, Trump has continued to pursue this workforce restructuring strategy, coordinating with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 to systematically reshape the federal bureaucracy.

Key Actors

Donald Trump Office of Personnel Management Heritage Foundation Project 2025 American Federation of Government Employees

Tags

schedule-f civil-service-capture systematic-coordination federal-workforce institutional-capture executive-power-expansion

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