Trump strips civil-service protections from thousands of feds

Photo: President Donald J. Trump signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Erich Wagner. Defense One – June 3, 2026. Executive Order: Implementing Schedule Policy / Career in the Excepted Service.

Some 8,000 career federal workers were stripped of civil-service protections on Wednesday by President Trump, who ordered their positions to be converted into at-will employment. 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. […]

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