Trump Just Laid the Groundwork to Dismantle the Deep State — Legally
President Trump has quietly issued an executive order creating “Schedule G”: a new classification of federal employees that could radically shift the balance of power in Washington.
What does it mean? It means thousands of entrenched, unelected bureaucrats; the so-called ‘permanent government’, can now be removed from positions of influence if they’re not aligned with the administration’s agenda.
For decades, every president has entered office only to find that the real power isn’t in the Oval Office, it’s buried deep inside the agencies, in career officials who resist any change that threatens the system they serve.
With Schedule G, Trump is putting an end to that.
It targets policy-influencing roles; the exact jobs held by mid- and senior-level staffers who interpret, implement, and often sabotage executive orders behind the scenes. These people have long been untouchable. Schedule G makes them replaceable.
The draining of the swamp is about to accelerate. ‘Schedule G’ is the deep state’s worst nightmare.
Trump reclassifies some federal workers, making them easier to fire
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, as he meets with Bahrain’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (not pictured), in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2025.
July 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a new classification of non-career federal workers who can more easily be fired if they fail to carry out a president’s priorities, the White House said.
The new classification, called Schedule G, will be for employees involved in policy making who will now be expected to leave their positions when the president who appointed them leaves office, according to a White House fact sheet.
The White House did not provide details on how many workers would be put into this new classification.
Earlier this year, Trump signaled the change, saying the federal government will finally be “run like a business.”
The executive order will likely strip vast numbers of the roughly 2.3 million federal workforce of their job protections by effectively making them employees at will.
Trump ordered the reclassification of many government workers at the end of his first term, known as Schedule F, which former Democratic President Joe Biden rescinded on his first day in office in 2021.
Estimates then were that Schedule F could have made at least 50,000 federal workers vulnerable to being fired.
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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/trump-reclassifies-some-federal-workers-making-them-easier-fire-2025-07-17/
