{"id":44938,"date":"2025-07-17T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44938"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:15:00","slug":"trumps-latest-executive-order-creates-new-classification-of-federal-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44938","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s latest executive order creates new classification of federal employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>penned a new executive order on Thursday to form a new classification of noncareer federal employees who will be hired to \u201chelp faithfully implement the President\u2019s policy agenda.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The employees will be listed under the classification \u201cSchedule G\u201d and will engage in \u201cpolicy-making or policy-advocating work,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/07\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-creates-new-classification-of-federal-employee-to-help-serve-the-american-people\/\"><u>according to the White House<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Schedule G jobs will be noncareer positions, which will \u201cgenerally\u201d be expected to end once the president who appointed them leaves the Oval Office. The classification does not apply to career positions or career workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cPresident Trump believes creating non-career Schedule G positions will enhance government efficiency and accountability and improve services provided to taxpayers by increasing the horsepower for agency implementation of Administration policy,\u201d the White House said on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The White House has argued that the new classification of federal government employees will boost operations, especially at the Department of Veterans Affairs, \u201cby streamlining appointments for key policy roles.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The administration did not list how many workers would be considered under the new classification.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In April, the administration&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-creates-new-federal-employee-category-to-enhance-accountability\/\"><u>proposed a rule to reclassify<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;thousands of career federal government employees as \u201cat-will\u201d workers, empowering \u201cfederal agencies to swiftly remove employees in policy-influencing roles for poor performance, misconduct, corruption, or subversion of Presidential directives, without lengthy procedural hurdles.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5407623-trumps-executive-order-new-classification-federal-employees\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2002penned a new executive order on Thursday to form a new classification of noncareer federal employees who will be hired to \u201chelp faithfully implement the President\u2019s policy agenda.\u201d&nbsp; The employees will be listed under the classification \u201cSchedule G\u201d and will engage in \u201cpolicy-making or policy-advocating work,\u201d&nbsp;according to the White House.&nbsp; Schedule G jobs will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2849,4356,1230],"class_list":["post-44938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-executive-order","tag-federal-employees","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44940,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44938\/revisions\/44940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}