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.
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“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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- NATIONAL ACTIVE AND RETIRED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATIONFebruary 6, 2025
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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Orders this one revokes or amends
- Revokes Executive Order 14003, Protecting the Federal WorkforceSigned January 22, 2021
Later orders that revoke or amend this one
- Amended by Executive Order 14410, Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted ServiceSigned June 3, 2026
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The Federal Register's notes on this order:
- Reinstates: EO 13957, October 21, 2020
- Revokes: EO 14003, January 22, 2021
- Amended by: EO 14410, June 3, 2026