Trump administration to make it easier to fire senior federal workers, WSJ reports
Source: Reuters
February 5, 2026 5:14 AM EST Updated 1 hour ago
Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving to make it easier to potentially dismiss career officials in senior government roles, a step that could affect about 50,000 federal workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is expected to issue a final rule on Thursday creating a category for high-ranking career employees involved in carrying out administration policies, the report said. Workers in the category would be exempted from long-standing civil service protections that make federal workers difficult to fire, the WSJ said.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration took aggressive steps to shrink the overall federal workforce last year.
Office of Personnel Management officials said the rule is aimed in part at "disciplining" federal workers who stand in the way of Trump’s policies, WSJ reported. It added that the new category applies to senior positions that are policy-determining, policymaking or policy-advocating in nature.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/trump-administration-make-it-easier-fire-50000-federal-workers-wsj-reports-2026-02-05/
Sounds like some variation of the idiotic "Schedule F" thing.
Every time the GOP gets in, they make sure to completely wreck the economy so Democrats end up spending all their time and capital on cleaning up that mess when they are back controlling things, and barely have time to address and bolster all the "foundational" things that the GOP fucks up.
In this case, Biden torpedoed 45's Schedule F crap, but 45 put it back again. This means that Congress needs to codify (by amending the Civil Service Act) the protections needed for civil service workers, against hyper-partisan actions.