{"id":229753,"date":"2026-06-11T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-signs-order-moving-thousands-of-federal-employees-into-schedule-f\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:25:12","slug":"trump-signs-order-moving-thousands-of-federal-employees-into-schedule-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-signs-order-moving-thousands-of-federal-employees-into-schedule-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/people\/2026\/06\/trump-federal-employees-schedule-f\/413979\/?oref=ng-homepage-river\">Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/people\/2026\/06\/trump-federal-employees-schedule-f\/413979\/?oref=ng-homepage-river\">https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/people\/2026\/06\/trump-federal-employees-schedule-f\/413979\/?oref=ng-homepage-river<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 16:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nextgov.com\">www.nextgov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident Trump signed an executive order converting nearly 10,000 federal career workers into at-will Schedule Policy\/Career employees. This initiative seeks to make it easier to fire federal employees in policy-related positions by removing them from the Merit Systems Protection Board&#8217;s oversight and changing the process for investigating whistleblower complaints. The Trump administration&#8217;s goal was to create a more flexible workforce capable of carrying out policy directives, though this policy has faced opposition from federal employee unions and government reform groups and is subject to multiple lawsuits. Trump&#8217;s administration argued that it would not compromise the quality of the federal workforce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump signed an executive order converting nearly 10,000 career federal workers into Schedule Policy\/Career employees.<\/li>\n<li>This move was intended to align federal policy officials more closely with the president&#8217;s directives by making them at-will.<\/li>\n<li>The policy has been subject to lawsuits from federal employee unions, and critics warn that it could lead to political favoritism in the workplace.<\/li>\n<li>Despite concerns, the administration maintains that no loyalty tests will be required for these positions, and the process will allow for employees to be dismissed if they show reluctance to follow directives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/people\/2026\/06\/trump-federal-employees-schedule-f\/413979\/?oref=ng-homepage-river Publish Date: 2026-06-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2026\/06\/04\/06032026SkedF\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229757,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229753\/revisions\/229757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}