President Trump signed an executive order to eliminate merit-based civil service protections from as many as 50,000 or more federal employees. In the order, Trump reinstated a new excepted service schedule, Schedule F (or Schedule Policy\/Career), and began the process of reclassifying a significant number of employees into this new excepted service category, removing the protection of merit-based civil service rules that require hiring and firing based on merit, rather than political affiliation or otherwise. NARFE opposes Schedule F and supports the Saving the Civil Service Act, H.R.492\/S.134, to prohibit a return of Schedule F.<\/p>\n
Additional information on Schedule F (or Schedule Policy\/Career) and other information can be found on our national website under the Advocacy tab, Emerging Threats to the Federal Community<\/a>. Background information is also available on the Fedweek<\/a>\u00a0and the Government Executive<\/a>\u00a0websites.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Schedule F, now known as Schedule Policy\/Career, is a new category of excepted service employees that strips job protections from career positions. Learn what it is, who it affects, and how to challenge it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2025\/05\/opm-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}