Trump reclassifies thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire
Source: The Guardian
Mon 20 Jan 2025 20.49 EST
Last modified on Tue 21 Jan 2025 05.27 EST
Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order reclassifying thousands of federal employees as political hires, making them easier to fire if deemed insufficiently loyal to the new president and his aims.
One of a promised flurry of measures signed on Trump’s first day back in power, the order effectively reinstates “Schedule F”, which sought to allow for the reclassification of tens of thousands of federal workers. Schedule F changed civil service rules to allow for a broad swath of career federal employees to be fired without civil service protection, reclassifying their jobs as political appointments.
In the executive order posted Monday night on the White House website titled “Initial rescissions of harmful executive orders and actions,” Trump revoked an executive order issued by Joe Biden two days after assuming office in 2021.
That order revoked a different late-term Trump order that redesignated many federal civilian employees, which exempted them from civil service protections.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-executive-order-schedule-f

Lovie777
(17,690 posts)remember the job loses in the GW Bush era? The economy tanked, and President Obama brought the economy back to life.
But oh noes, the eggs are to high.
riversedge
(74,843 posts)is a dangerous situation--.
kerouac2
(1,135 posts)They will exploit everything. And it takes a long time to undo or litigate their actions.
And guess what, most of his voters don't even pay attention enough to really know anything he does or the ramifications.
They are blissful maga frogs who don't know the water is going to boil them alive.
FailureToCommunicate
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Bernardo de La Paz
(53,992 posts)and they hope to do it without having to fire en masse. Just pressure pressure pressure so that resistance quits on its own.
Bengus81
(8,564 posts)I no longer give a flying FUCK about those people. Live on a fucking park bench for all I care.
johnnyfins
(1,902 posts)And I consider myself an empathetic person.
No one is blinder than he who WILL NOT see.
LisaL
(47,162 posts)My guess is they knew what was coming based on Trump's last term.
Mysterian
(5,502 posts)A couple higher-ups including an attorney and a Forest Service GS-13.
HappyLarge
(47 posts)There’s tons of MAGA dipshits federally employed.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,105 posts)


Easterncedar
(4,161 posts)mackdaddy
(1,742 posts)I would guess 25 to 50 percent. But everyone is on the bus.Have fun.
Hugin
(35,979 posts)Most of them fall in the demographic of college educated which also went for the Democratic ticket.
30% of Federal Employees are veterans as well.
In the not so long ago past I also worked for "The government" at one time . This was not some sexy fed position that captures headlines or stirs vast controversy but a small obscure county job. The facility that I worked at had a large amount of public interaction daily so we were very much visible even if not at all interesting. I was the senior person in charge. One time during an election cycle I had an employee who started putting up campaign material around the place for a certain candidate in the local election He tried to give me crap for it when I took it all down but cooled his jet's when I told him I would take this to the next level up if he kept up his bullshit ( even though I had the seniority I did not have the power to fire, That was one level up from me ) Even though I had my own personal leanings in the area politics I knew damn well when one is a public employee well then,, One serves the public, That's it, You don't view people walking through the door as "Democrat's', "Republican", ect. You view them as the public your expected to serve with the same amount of courtesy and service all the way around. The elected people of course are expected to openly expound on their party affiliations but in my opinion regular civil servant's ( hourly people in private business) need to stay apolitical at work and remember they are there to do a job for "THE PUBLIC'' regardless of how they lean politically ( And yes, I do know campaign posters and the like are illegal on Government property, One of the reasons I jumped this guy)
Layzeebeaver
(1,919 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,792 posts)Sounds pretty close to rewriting the basis of the constitution or the very structure of government.
If he can do this, he can start firing Capital school teachers, firemen, and all FBI agents. He could go through the halls of Foggy Bottom or the IRS to make sure there are sufficient portraits of him hanging on the walls.
Hekate
(97,026 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,792 posts)He's immune for crimes committed while doing his job. If a court demands he end a program or reverse an action he signed, and he simple ignores the judge order, what could they do? Could they charge him with contempt of court? Refer back to that first sentence.
Trump is in effect, a dictator.
no_hypocrisy
(51,004 posts)Response to no_hypocrisy (Reply #12)
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BumRushDaShow
(150,122 posts)which lead to Raygun's firing them.
But that wasn't a contract-related issue like this.
BumRushDaShow
(150,122 posts)which I expect is the point of all of this. To keep the peons tied up on court while they raid the Treasury.
kansasobama
(1,721 posts)There has to be a leader of the opposition who has to come up to lead and be brave. Who is this going to be? For once, can we just stop this bullshit that we cannot have coastal Dems. Nation is burning and it is not going to be a Dem from a Midwestern state that voted for MAGA. Not happening.
Kid Berwyn
(19,753 posts)Viel Glück, Amerika.
FakeNoose
(37,073 posts)That's how he was able to fire so many state department employees. Chump and Rex Tillerson together almost completely decimated the State Department. Now Chump wants to do the same thing to the entire US government.
sakabatou
(44,450 posts)Anyone who is not a yes man or in lock-step with Dump will be fired.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)I say let him go ahead...
Hekate
(97,026 posts)There’s a lot of political appointments available to an incoming administration — like Heckuva Job Brownie — but dictators, despots, and autocrats want it all, and they want those jobs to be for sale. You too can get your moronic nephew a job supervising dam repair and construction: all you have to do is grease the right palms.
D. Spaulding
(165 posts)Everyone one remember the firm denial from Trump and his sycophants?
"Project 2025? What's that?"
"that's ridiculous, the president never even heard of it"
Now he's hired many of the authors into his administration and not even sparing a second before beginning to follow the playbook.
hedgetrimmer
(2,207 posts)no_hypocrisy
(51,004 posts)pfitz59
(11,422 posts)I'm certain the Federal Courts will issue an injunction within the next few days. Then it becomes a push me pull you battle of judicial appointees.
choie
(5,299 posts)she asked naively.
BumRushDaShow
(150,122 posts)and at least one has already filed suit - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143377893