Keith’s note: According to the 18 April 2025 White House posting “The Trump administration on Friday will announce that it’s moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as “Schedule F,” that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting President Trump’s agenda.” This all points back to a posting on this topic issued on 20 January 2025. (see Schedule F Is Back)
- According to Axios, “By stripping civil service protections from about 50,000 people — roughly 2% of the federal work force — Trump is continuing his far-reaching effort to trim the federal bureaucracy and make it more answerable to him.”
- AP notes that Trump is “starting the process of reclassifying 50,000 federal employees under what’s known as Schedule F, which can make civil servants into political appointees or other at-will workers, who are more easily dismissed from their jobs. That means they’ll have less civil service protection.”
How many at NASA will be affected?
Several that are non-partisan career employees, where they can be laid off with little recourse. Most damaging is such designations impact their focus of their NASA work as they become political positions.