📋OPM creates Schedule G excepted service for political appointees
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President Trump signed an executive order July 17, 2025, creating "Schedule G"—a new federal employee classification for policy-making roles that must resign when administrations change. The order fills a "gap" between career civil servants and political appointees, allowing agencies to hire non-career staff for "policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating" positions. Unlike protected career employees, Schedule G workers serve at presidential pleasure, expanding political control over previously nonpartisan government functions.
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Why This Matters
🚧 Destroys civil service protections for thousands of federal jobs:
Any position deemed "policy-related" loses job security, letting presidents fire scientists, analysts, and experts who present inconvenient facts.
🎯 Creates loyalty tests for previously nonpartisan positions:
EPA scientists, CDC researchers, and economic analysts must now align with presidential politics or lose careers.
👑 Future presidents inherit pre-purged bureaucracy:
Each administration can now stack agencies with loyalists who prioritize politics over expertise, destroying institutional knowledge.
📄 File FOIA requests for Schedule G designation lists:
Demand transparency on which positions lose protections—sunlight reveals how deep political control goes.
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Match the agency to the type of position designated under Schedule G:
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On what date did President Trump sign the executive order creating Schedule G?
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Which office is responsible for issuing regulations and listing positions to implement Schedule G?
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Critics warned that Schedule G most closely mirrored which previously revoked classification?
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Which nonpartisan organization labeled Schedule G unnecessary and a threat to merit-based governance?
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Schedule G defines noncareer positions of what character to be filled at the president’s pleasure?
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Schedule G positions are required to vacate their positions upon a change of administration.
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Schedule G carries no new appropriations and uses existing agency budgets.
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