Trump Reclassifies 8,000 Senior Federal Posts to Boost Accountability
TL;DR
Trump signs an executive order reclassifying about 8,000 senior policy-influencing federal roles as Schedule Policy/Career, making them at-will and enabling swifter removal for poor performance, misconduct, or subversion while preserving nonpartisan hiring; most of these are GS-15 or Senior Level positions such as directors and senior policy officials; the move is pitched as restoring accountability and reducing red tape in the federal workforce, building on EO 13957 and contrasting with Biden-era policies.
Topics:nationpolitics#accountability#executive-order#federal-workforce#politics#schedule-policy-career#trump
- Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Increases Accountability in the Federal Workforce The White House (.gov)
- Trump strips job protections from 8,000 senior federal workers The Washington Post
- Firing federal workers just got easier. Trump EO targets 8,000 employees USA Today
- Trump moves about 8,000 federal positions to Schedule Policy/Career Federal News Network
- White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires Scientific American
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