TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Trump on Wednesday [October 21, 2020] signed an executive order creating a new classification of ‘policy-making’ federal employees that could strip swaths of the federal workforce of civil service protections just before the next president is sworn into office.
The order would create a new Schedule F within the excepted service of the federal government… Positions in the new Schedule F would effectively constitute at-will employment, without any of the protections against adverse personnel actions that most federal workers currently enjoy…
The White House argued that the executive order is a necessary reform to ensure that federal officials can more efficiently remove ‘poor performers.’
But federal employee groups and government observers described the executive order as a ‘stunning’ attempt to politicize the civil service and undermine more than a century of laws aimed at preventing corruption and cronyism in the federal government.”
-Erich Wagner, “‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service,” govexec.com, Oct. 22, 2020