Ahead of Trump's inauguration, transition officials touted that the new president would sign upwards of 200 executive actions Monday, including an expansion of immigration enforcement, pardons for those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and a hiring freeze for much of the federal workforce.
In the Oval Office Monday night, Trump signed an order aimed at reinstating Schedule F, a proposal from the end of his first term that would convert tens of thousands of career federal workers in “policy-related” jobs out of the merit-based competitive service and into at-will positions, effectively stripping them of their civil service protections.
Former President Biden initially disbanded the initiative when he took office in 2021, and during his term, the Office of Personnel Management issued regulations defining “policy-related” positions as the current list of roughly 4,000 political appointments throughout government. Trump's edict tasked OPM with "promptly" unwinding those regulations, though it is unclear whether officials will go through the normal notice-and-comment period or simply proceed with an interim final rule.
“Most of those bureaucrats are being fired, they’re gone,” Trump said at a rally Monday afternoon while referring to his planned signing of a freeze on new federal regulations. “It should be all of them.”
And when an aide handed Trump the Schedule F order to sign on Monday night, Trump remarked: "We're getting rid of all of the cancer, the cancer caused by the Biden administration."
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