President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will make it much easier to fire unproductive career government workers, telling them that they must perform at a high standard and enact his agenda or they will be terminated.
Strengthening his executive order, Trump announced that the federal government would be creating a new set of regulations for career bureaucrats that will force them to be held to high standards, or they will be fired. The order will also classify career government workers as “schedule policy/career” employees, which will allow the Trump administration to fire them more easily.
Trump announced the move in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, as well as on X.
“Following my Day One Executive Order, the Office of Personnel Management will be issuing new Civil Service Regulations for career government employees,” he wrote. “Moving forward, career government employees, working on policy matters, will be classified as ‘Schedule Policy/Career,’ and will be held to the highest standards of conduct and performance.”
“If these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the President, or are engaging in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job,” he added. “This is common sense, and will allow the federal government to finally be ‘run like a business.’ We must root out corruption and implement accountability in our Federal Workforce!”
This news comes after Trump signed an executive order almost immediately upon taking office in January that reinstated Schedule F. According to The Post Millennial, Schedule F “reclassified tens of thousands of federal workers as the ‘at will’ workers. Trump took action in his first term to establish Schedule F, but it was rescinded by former President Biden during his term in office.”
Now, Schedule F may be able to cover roughly 50,000 career government employees, which is approximately 2% of the federal workforce. According to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), federal agencies are being ordered to provide a report to the Trump administration about which workers could fall under Schedule F.
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