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• Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections’ - November 18, 2025

• By Eric Katz and Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  Draft final regulations from the Office of Personnel Management will cite “accountability to the president” as grounds for stripping tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections, according to excerpts reviewed by Government Executive.

  First devised late in President Trump’s first term and reissued in January, Schedule F—now renamed Schedule Policy/Career—is a new job classification within the government’s excepted service for "policy-related" positions. Employees in positions targeted for conversion would become effectively at-will employees.

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