{"id":39193,"date":"2025-04-18T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/trump-to-reclassify-wide-swaths-of-federal-workers-to-allow-for-more-firings\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T21:55:07","slug":"trump-to-reclassify-wide-swaths-of-federal-workers-to-allow-for-more-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/trump-to-reclassify-wide-swaths-of-federal-workers-to-allow-for-more-firings\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to reclassify wide swaths of federal workers to allow for more firings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President announces more employees under \u2018Schedule F\u2019 can be hired or fired based on their allegiance to him<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday said his administration is implementing a move that will allow far more firings of federal employees and will make significantly more roles into politically appointed positions beholden to the president.<\/p>\n<p>The office of personnel management (OPM) on Friday published a new rule that invokes \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-executive-order-schedule-f\">Schedule F<\/a>\u201d, a prior attempt to reclassify wide swaths of federal workers not as civic service roles with protections regardless of who\u2019s in power \u2013 but as political appointees who can be hired or fired based on their allegiances to the president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/18\/trump-federal-workers-schedule-f\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President announces more employees under \u2018Schedule F\u2019 can be hired or fired based on their allegiance to him Donald Trump on Friday said his administration is implementing a move that will allow far more firings of federal employees and will make significantly more roles into politically appointed positions beholden to the president. The office of &#8230; <a title=\"Trump to reclassify wide swaths of federal workers to allow for more firings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/trump-to-reclassify-wide-swaths-of-federal-workers-to-allow-for-more-firings\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump to reclassify wide swaths of federal workers to allow for more firings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}