Executive order · Signed January 20, 2025

Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce

President Donald Trump signed it on January 20, 2025. Published in the Federal Register on January 31, 2025, 90 FR 8625.

Executive Order 14171
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  1. Chris Van HollenDDemocratMaryland · Senate · May 14, 2025

    Van Hollen, Kaine, Warner, Alsobrooks, & Connolly Lead Colleagues in Letter to OPM Opposing Trump Administration’s Revival of Schedule F

    “On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14171 which claimed to immediately rescind regulations protecting civil servants and the merit system, reinstated Schedule F, and simultaneously directed OPM to engage in the rulemaking process to create a regulation supporting the reclassification order. Now known as Schedule Policy/Career, any positions that influence policy are directed to be reclassified into”

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  1. NARFE Files Suit to Preserve Merit-Based Civil Service

    “NARFE has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the district of D.C. to block the implementation of President Trump’s Executive Order 14171 creating Schedule Policy/Career (or Schedule P/C, formerly known as Schedule F). Protect Democracy and Selendy Gay, PLLC, are representing NARFE and its co-plaintiff, the Government Accountability Project (GAP), in this lawsuit.”

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