Trump Administration Moves Forward with Implementing Schedule F: What Federal Employees Need to Know
As we recently discussed, when President Trump took office earlier this year, one of his first actions was to sign an executive order that revived “Schedule F,” which is now called “Schedule Policy/Career.” While we noted in our prior article that the executive order was being challenged in court, President Trump is now moving ahead with efforts to implement Schedule F (or Schedule Policy/Career) in the federal workforce. As the Associated Press (AP) reported on April 18, 2025: “President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term. “He’s starting the process of reclassifying 50,000 federal employees under what’s known as Schedule F, which can make civil servants into political appointees or other at-will workers, who are more easily dismissed from their jobs.