'Now I Can't Say Anything': Federal Employees Fear Retaliation After Trump Strips Civil Service Protections

'Now I Can't Say Anything': Federal Employees Fear Retaliation After Trump Strips Civil Service Protections

Thousands of US federal employees say they are worried about their jobs after President Donald Trump's administration formally removed civil service protections from nearly 8,000 government workers under the newly created Schedule Policy/Career classification. Employees affected by the change told Federal News Network they now fear dismissal without appeal and say they no longer feel safe raising professional concerns in the workplace. After the…

How to Rebuild a Civil Service

We want to put them in trauma.This was the blueprint for Project 2025’s assault on the civil service, stated plainly by Russell Vought, the man who drew it up. And trauma was, unlike most things the second Trump administration promised, delivered. Schedule F returned, opening the civil service to direct politicization. USAID—an agency created by Congress, with funding appropriated by Congress, performing explicit functions delegated by Congress—…