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Trump reclassifies thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire

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Order effectively reinstates Schedule F’ which sought to allow for the reclassification of tens of thousands of federal workers.

Schedule F changed civil service rules allowing for a broad swath of career federal employees to be fired without civil service protection.

Key aides to Trump have long heralded mass government firings as part of an attack on the so-called “administrative” or “deep” state.