President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order in Washington that reclassifies about 8,000 senior federal officials into a new 'at‑will' category known as Schedule Policy/Career, stripping them of core civil service protections and allowing dismissal for offences including 'subversion' of presidential directives, according to the White House and the Office of Personnel Management.
The order applies to high‑ranking policy staff across multiple agencies and, on the administration's own account, is designed to make it easier to fire officials who resist or fail to advance the president's agenda.
