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Civil Service Reform

Schedule F and other overhauls stripping civil service protections from federal workers.

  1. 2026

    1 item
    Pendleton Act (1883)
    Celebrating 143 years of the merit-based civil service
    MSPB Jurisdiction
    May 15

    HHS strips civil service protections from hundreds of senior employees

    Hundreds of HHS senior staff lose firing protections as Schedule Policy/Career hits first agency

    R
    S
    Everett Kelley
    Donald Trump
    T
    +4
    9 figures

  2. 2025

    2 items
    Fact-checked via CivicSense verification process
    Federal agencies are ramping up efforts to prepare for a presidential transition
    Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision
    Jan 15

    Heritage Foundation vets 20,000 appointees before 2025 election

    Heritage Foundation picks officials before voters do

    P
    S
    J
    Jennifer Bacon
    Kevin Roberts
    +2
    7 figures

  3. 2024

    1 item

  4. 2022

    1 item

  5. 2021

    1 item

  6. 2020

    1 item

  7. 1981

    1 item

  8. 1978

    2 items

  9. 1939

    1 item

  10. 1883

    1 item
People

Key figures in Civil Service Reform

20 figures
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Kevin Roberts
President of Heritage Foundation
Paul Dans
Project 2025 Director (2022-2024)
Everett Kelley
National President, American Federation of Government Employees
Russell Vought
White House Budget Director
Center for American Progress
Liberal Think Tank
Dan Goldbeck
Senior Analyst, Federation of American Scientists
Jennifer Bacon
Personnel Office Deputy (2020)
Joe Biden
46th President of the United States (2021-2025)
John McEntee
Former Presidential Personnel Office Director (2020-2021)
Kiran Ahuja
Former Director, Office of Personnel Management
Max Stier
President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service
Partnership for Public Service
Nonpartisan Transition Organization
Paula Xinis
U.S. District Judge, District of Maryland
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Scott Kupor
Director, Office of Personnel Management
Spencer Chretien
Project 2025 Associate Director
Stephen Miller
Immigration Policy Advisor
Susie Wiles
White House Chief of Staff
Tom Devine
Legal Director, Government Accountability Project