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EO Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions within the federal workforce

President Trump issued an executive order indicating he will overturn regulations to clear the way for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which manages civil service (non-elected, non-military) employees of the federal government, to reinstate an employee classification known as Schedule F. The first Trump administration created the Schedule F designation in order to make it easier to fire federal workers in jobs that are normally apolitical, and therefore have civil service protections in their job. The Biden administration established protections to limit the use of this designation. By reinstituting Schedule F, President Trump would be able to fire federal workers he deems disloyal, shifting the work of government away from the public interest and toward the president’s interests.   Under Schedule F, significant numbers of federal employees – who live and work across every U.S. state and territory – could be vulnerable to political attack, retaliatory termination, or termination without cause in order to fast-track hiring civil servants with certain political or ideological preferences.