Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F
Trump signing an executive order on April 30, 2026. Schedule F was first proposed via executive order in October 2020 and was rescinded during the Biden administration. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
June 4, 2026 04:44 PM ET
Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order formally converting nearly 10,000 career federal workers into Schedule Policy/Career, making them effectively at-will employees.
The edict marks the culmination of a years-long push to make it easier to fire federal employees in “policy-related” jobs by removing them from the federal government’s competitive service and placing them in a new job category, initially called Schedule F and now referred to as Schedule Policy/Career. Employees placed into the new schedule would no longer be able to challenge adverse personnel actions before the Merit Systems Protection Board, and...
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