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Why President Trump wants to fire federal workers - CNBC The Trump administration is threatening to lay off thousands of federal workers if the government shutdown continues. Amid the lapse in congressional appropriations that began Oct. 1, PresidentDonald Trumphas signaled plans to cut "Democrat Agencies" and "Democrat programs," without specifying which agencies and programs he had in mind. And he has repeatedly warned that the shutdown will lead to "substantial" permanent job losses if the impasse is not soon resolved. Previous government shutdowns have not led to mass firings. But Trump and his administration raised the threat of layoffs even before the shutdown began: The U.S. Office of Management and Budget, in a late September memo, instructed certain agencies to start consideringlaying off some workers. "This administration believes firmly that federal government employees serve at the pleasure of the president," said Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at libertarian think tank the Cato Institute. "And so they are targeting those employees and programs and projects that are not in alignment with the goals the administration is trying to achieve." …

Trump just deleted job protections for 8,000 career federal workers. He signed Schedule F to bypass civil service laws and replace policy experts with political loyalists. This works like firing your plumber during a flood to hire a cheerleader. Competence 🚫 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers <p>Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader drive by his administration to overhaul the federal workforce.</p><p>The order, released by the White House and the office of personnel management (OPM) on Wednesday, strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers – about 8,000 employees – earning up to almost $200,000 a year<strong>,</strong> and who are deemed to be “influencing” government policy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/trump-order-federal-workers">Continue reading...</a>

Trump's edict making 8,000 feds at-will employees draws swift outcry Stay Connected Featured eBooks Insights & Reports The Federal Practitioner’s Guide to Supply Chain Risk & Due Diligence Presented By Craft.co Download Now The Federal AI Software Factory Blueprint Presented By TechTrend Download Now Workforce Trump’s edict making 8,000 feds at-will employees draws swift outcry Agencies have just one week to reclassify thousands of federal workers in purportedly policy-related roles into the new Schedule Policy/Career, stripping them of most civil service protections. Erich Wagner | June 5, 2026 Schedule F White House Unions Erich Wagner Organizations representing federal workers and good government advocates were quick to decry President Trump’s move this week to formally strip around 8,000 federal workers of their civil service protections, making them at-will employees, though the exact contours of the initiative’s scope remain unclear. Wednesday’s executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career, a new job category within the excepted service -- formerly known as Schedule F -- designed for career employees in “policy-related” positions who lack the removal protections in Titl…

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.

Trump moves about 8,000 federal jobs to new category that strips job ... President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office in this file photo from January 2025. On Wednesday, he signed an order that will strip civil service protections from about 8,000 senior federal workers.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) ByDrew Friedman Close to 8,000 career federal employees will be moved into a new employment category with limited job protections, after the Trump administration took the final step to make Schedule Policy/Career a reality. Anexecutive orderPresident Donald Trump signed Wednesday afternoon formalizes the long-expected federal employment classification and eliminates civil service protections for thousands of senior-level positions across government. Federal unions, employee organizations, good government groups and individual federal employees raised concerns during the public comment period that Schedule Policy/Career will politicize the federal workforce, damage the nonpartisan nature of the career civil service and undermine democracy. “This is a blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government by eliminating employees’ due process rights so the…

Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F Stay Connected Featured eBooks Insights & Reports Fraudsters are Changing Playbooks and the Data Proves It Presented By Socure Download Now The Federal AI Software Factory Blueprint Presented By TechTrend Download Now Workforce 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 Schedule F White House Civil Service Erich Wagner 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 …

Firing federal workers just got easier. Trump EO targets 8,000 employees POLITICS Donald Trump Add Topic Firing federal workers just got easier. Trump EO targets 8,000 workers Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy USA TODAY Updated June 4, 2026, 12:18 p.m. ET Hear this story WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump has signed an executive order converting nearly 8,000 federal workers who are in "senior policy-influencing positions" into at-will employees, making it easier for the administration to fire them. About 97% of the reclassified positions are among the highest-ranking career positions, such as directors, chiefs of staff, senior advisers and policy analysts who are involved in drafting regulations and guidance and determining who gets federal grants. At an Oval Office event June 3 to sign the executive order, Trump invited James Sherk of the Domestic Policy Council, the mastermind behind the change, to share his thoughts. Sherk said federal employee removal procedures are often lengthy. "If you have employees who are trying to undermine the wishes of American people by pushing of their own agenda or just incompetent in what they're doing, agencies have a longstanding typical time getting …