Good move, and he can start by removing...

Editor's note: ...the control the Senior Executive Service (SES) has over the US Government. The Trump administration's executive order could fundamentally reshape the Senior Executive Service by stripping many SES officials of long-standing civil service protections and making them easier to fire for resisting White House policy directives. This move weakens what has been seen as a "nonpartisan" federal bureaucracy and revives a patronage-style system where senior government managers are pressured to align politically with the administration in power. The SES system was created domestically under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 during the administration of Jimmy Carter based on the British civil service model as part of an effort to modernize the American federal bureaucracy. The Senior Executive Service consists of roughly 8,000 top federal managers who operate as a powerful administrative class over the GS-14 and GS-15 level (SES pay ranges generally start around $151,000 and can exceed $220,000 annually) overseeing the daily machinery of the U.S. government across changing presidential administrations. Most Americans have little knowledge of the roughly 8,000 Senior Executive Service officials who operate as a powerful managerial class overseeing the daily machinery of the U.S. federal government behind changing administrations.
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Facilitate Firing Federal Employees

By AG News Staff | June 4, 2026

President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally advanced a long-sought effort to make it easier to remove senior federal employees involved in policymaking, arguing the change will help ensure government agencies are responsive to elected leadership and the American people.

Trump signed an executive order implementing Schedule Policy/Career, or Schedule P/C, a new employment classification that places certain career federal workers into positions that can be hired and removed in a manner similar to political appointees.

The policy is a revival of the first Trump administration's Schedule F initiative and is expected to affect roughly 8,000 federal employees.

According to the White House, the move is designed to address longstanding difficulties in removing federal workers accused of poor performance or misconduct.

The executive order states that employees placed into the new category would be "exempted from the adverse action procedures that make removals for poor performance or misconduct so difficult."

The administration argued that some high-ranking career officials have remained in influential government positions despite poor performance or resistance to implementing presidential policies.

"Consequently, employees with significant policy-making responsibilities can stay in their jobs for years even if they perform poorly, engage in misconduct, or are unwilling to advance Presidential policy across administrations, making their agencies less capable of delivering for the American people," the White House said in a fact sheet.

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Opposition was of course expected:

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