Trump Reinstates Schedule F on Inauguration Day

President Donald Trump reinstated Schedule F on January 20, 2025 — his first day of his second term — via executive order, restoring the policy that Biden had revoked four years earlier. The order directed agencies to again identify and reclassify policy-related career positions as at-will employees without civil service appeal rights. Russell Vought returned as OMB Director and was positioned as the lead implementation architect; Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency was simultaneously announced as a coordinating vehicle for workforce restructuring across agencies.