{"id":683211,"date":"2026-06-04T04:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683211\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:47:07","slug":"trump-strips-job-protections-from-8000-senior-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683211\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump strips job protections from 8,000 senior federal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PVOOSZM7XNDZRE36RQ3Y24QNGA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday reclassifying about 8,000 senior federal workers and making it easier to fire them for any reason, despite criticism that the move would politicize the civil service.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TAAKSZRK5ZAPJMPA7UWNFWAPZ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The long-anticipated order finalizes the administration\u2019s push to extend at-will status to career civil servants, part of a broader effort to transform the federal workforce. The new classification, Schedule Policy\/Career \u2014 called Schedule F during Trump\u2019s first term \u2014 applies mostly to senior employees who deal directly with policy decisions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday reclassifying about 8,000 senior federal workers and making it easier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-683211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}