{"id":1642,"date":"2026-06-04T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:06:09","slug":"trump-makes-it-easier-to-fire-8000-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>President Donald Trump signed an executive order removing civil service protections from about 8,000 senior federal policy workers.<\/li>\n<li>The new Schedule Policy\/Career category allows agencies to fire these employees without the usual procedural requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue the move politicizes federal employment, and several lawsuits are challenging the reclassification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that wipes away civil service protections from roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them at-will employees.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1638\">Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The move is the president\u2019s latest effort to overhaul the federal workforce, which he views as an impediment to carrying out his policies. During his second term, he has directed agencies to shrink their staffing, terminated union contracts in the name of national security and taken other steps that critics argue politicizes federal employment.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Wednesday\u2019s executive order reclassifies about 8,000 senior policy positions into a new category called Schedule Policy\/Career. They include directors, chiefs of staffs, senior advisers, policy analysts and those with \u201csignificant involvement\u201d in drafting regulations and determining who gets federal grants.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cAgencies can remove employees in Schedule Policy\/Career for poor performance, misconduct, corruption, or subversion of Presidential directives without lengthy procedural hurdles that often prevent accountability,\u201d according to a White House fact sheet.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Attempts to shift policy personnel into at-will positions dates back to the end of Trump\u2019s first term, when he signed an order creating a new category called Schedule F, which could have affected an estimated 50,000 workers. Former President Joe Biden reversed that directive, but Trump quickly revived the effort when he took office last year. The Office of Personnel Management finalized a rule creating the category in February.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1636\">Flesh-eating New World screwworm detected in Texas calf, USDA says, signaling major threat to food production<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A large mirror adorns a wall outside of the Oval Office at the White House on September 28, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-1641\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1f960eaf4057c046977038b67be102ea.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>A large mirror adorns a wall outside of the Oval Office at the White House on September 28, 2025.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Pete Marovich\/Getty Images\/File<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Trump administration proposes having all federal workers sign NDAs<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>3  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cThis is very much about accountability,\u201d OPM director Scott Kupor told reporters Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s also about a restoration, in our mind, of the democratic process.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Schedule Policy\/Career designation is currently the subject of several lawsuits.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWhen government experts can be fired without cause, it\u2019s not just federal workers who are harmed \u2014 it\u2019s the people across the country who rely on these essential services every day,\u201d said Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward, which brought one of the suits.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1630\">Iran war powers rebuke shows how Trump is increasingly boxed in<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that wipes away civil service protections from roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them at-will employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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