Trump Invokes Schedule F, Making It Easier to Fire Federal Employees
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
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President Donald Trump is moving to reclassify around 50,000 government employees from civil servants to political appointees under Schedule F. This would remove civil service protections from these positions, making it easier for these federal workers to be fired. In a public statement, Trump said this will help him “root out corruption,” and have the government “run like a business.”
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump is moving to reclassify around 50,000 government employees from civil servants |
| 0:06.2 | to political appointees under Schedule F. This would make it easier for these federal workers to be fired. |
| 0:13.6 | In addition to this, Trump also has another plan that's going to affect. He's looking to break up the |
| 0:19.4 | concentration of federal employees in Washington, |
| 0:22.7 | D.C. And in other news, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling that blocks the Trump administration's |
| 0:28.3 | deportations of Venezuelans are being held at a detention center in Texas. And meanwhile, the |
| 0:35.4 | centerpiece of many of these arguments lately has been of a man who |
| 0:39.9 | was deported to El Salvador and is now in that big prison that's been set up for gang members. |
| 0:45.8 | The left has been referring to him as a Maryland man. The right has been referring to him as a |
| 0:51.0 | high-ranking member of the gang and terrorist organization MS-13. |
| 0:55.7 | And there's been new updates on his ties to MS-13. I'll be getting into this today. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:19.6 | President Donald Trump is taking moves right now that would reclassify the appointment and, let's say, jobs of some political appointees and employees. Now look, basically what he's doing, he's removing civil service protections from a lot of government positions, making it easier for these federal |
| 1:29.1 | workers to be fired by Donald Trump. And in a public statement, he said this will help him |
| 1:34.1 | root out corruption and have the government, quote, run like a business, meaning he's going to run |
| 1:40.3 | it like the apprentice, right? You're fired. Now, like, first off on Trump's new plan |
| 1:45.2 | with Schedule F, here's what he wrote on Truth Social. He said, following my day one executive order, |
| 1:50.7 | the Office of Personnel Management, will be issuing new civil service regulations for career |
| 1:56.4 | government employees. Moving forward, career government employees working on policy matters |
| 2:02.1 | will be classified as, quote, schedule policy slash career and will be held to the highest |
| 2:09.6 | standards of conduct and performance. If these government workers refuse to advance the policy |
| 2:15.1 | interests of the president or are engaging in corrupt behavior, |
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