Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F

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Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F

Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.

Erich Wagner June 3, 2026 04:13 PM ET

Schedule F * White House * Civil Service

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 whistleblower complaints filed by Schedule F employees would be investigated by their own agency, rather than the Office of Special Counsel.

A senior administration official told reporters Wednesday that, contrary to the administration's prior estimates that 50,000 feds would be converted to the new job category, just 8,000 jobs are targeted in Wednesday's executive order. An OPM spokesperson said Trump chose to instead focus on "the most senior level career policy officials." ... The official said the vast majority -- around 97% -- of those impacted are either GS-15s or senior leaders (SL). Jobs targeted for conversion include agency office and division heads; C-suite posts like chief information officers; regional officers and their deputies and chiefs of staff; program managers; those who help write federal regulations and attorneys involved in crafting agency or internal policies, as well as advisors, senior HR officials and grantmaking posts.

Schedule F was first proposed via executive order in October 2020, but following Trump's electoral defeat the following month, officials failed to implement the measure prior to former President Biden's inauguration. Biden rescinded the edict, and in 2024 the Office of Personnel Management issued new regulations to make it more difficult for a future president to revive the idea.

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Read more: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/06/trump-federal-employees-schedule-f/413945/

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/trump-strips-job-projections-from-8000-top-feds/
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Chris Geidner
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Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles -- including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."

Within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Positions of "Human Resources Specialist" under position
description number E23455;
Positions of "Research Biologist" under position description
number R20025;
Positions of "Budget Analyst"
under position description number
E25006;
Positions of "Epidemiologist" under position description number
E23018；
Positions of "Health Scientist" under position description
numbers E20800, E23043, E23030, $23533, E22355, S21169, S21177, $21186, S23036, E21400, E21235, Z21004, Z23002, E24185, E23333,
and E24841;
Positions of "Supervisory Health Scientist" under position
description numbers E23477, E24003, E14003, E23220, E23777, E23216, E22235, S05016, E22284, E17059, E21289, E19106, E24847, E23315, E23153, E24187, E24868, E11026, E23205, E05001, E24028, and E24186;
Positions of "Research and Innovations Officer" under position
description number R22013;
Positions of "Research Epidemiologist" under position description
number E21230;
Positions of "Supervisory Research Health Scientist" under
position description number E23492;
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Positions of "Senior Policy Analyst" under position description
number S21115;
Positions of "Public Health Advisor" under position description
numbers E22228, E16054, E22306, E15815, E23007, E22258, E23149, S04041, E23611, S23288, $22276, E23416, S22108, and E22086;
Positions of "Public Health Analyst" under position description
numbers E16055, E23219, E23119, E23221, S17025, E06013, E23036, E10004, E15003, S19017, S20807, E17009, S17031, E22469, E23047, E17045, $22073, and $22334;
Positions of "Supervisory Public Health Analyst" under position
description numbers $23524, E22368, E24130, and E23330;
Positions of "Health Communications Specialist" under position
description number S23148;
Positions of "IT Communications & Policy Officer" under position
description number E23347;
Positions of "Supervisory Resource Management Specialist" under
position description number E24023;
Positions of "Supervisory Public Health Advisor" under position
description number E23328;
Positions of "Associate Director for Communications" under
position description number E22272;
Positions of "Fiscal Planning and Evaluation Officer" under
position description number E19539;
Positions of "Health Policy and Issues Management Officer" under
position description numbers E19097 and E11019;
ALT

Positions of "Management and Operations Specialist" under
position description number E23452;
Positions of "Policy and Planning Officer" under position
description numbers E20179 and E17064;
Positions of "Strategy and Innovation Officer" under position
description number E20032;
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‪Catherine Rampell‬
‪@crampell.bsky.social‬
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Trump just signed order "reclassifying" 8,000 civil servants so they are easier to fire for political reasons -- this has been in the works since his first term www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F
Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.
www.govexec.com
6:02 PM · Jun 3, 2026
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Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2026-06-03T22:02:47.437Z