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Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce (Trump EO Tracker)

January 21, 2025

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Summary

The Order is intended to restore accountability in career civil service, reinstating a prior administration policy, Executive Order 13957 of October 21, 2020 (Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service). The Order alters the previous policy to focus on career professionals. Additionally, Executive Order 14003 of January 22, 2021 is revoked along with any rules, regulations, guidance or policy associated. 

Legal Challenges

Case Name National Treasury Employees Union v. Donald J. Trump et al., Case No. 1:25-cv-00170
Date Complaint Filed January 20, 2025
Venue United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Summary

Plaintiffs are seeking to declare that the Executive Order is unlawful and enjoin Defendants (President Trump and various agencies and officials) from creating a new excepted service, Schedule F.  Plaintiffs claim that Defendants will move a number of employees into this new service category “with the goal that many would then be fired.”  Plaintiffs argue that the Executive Order is unlawful because it exceeds statutory authority and is contrary to congressional intent, covers people other than political appointees, deprives federal employees of accrued due process rights, and violates the Administrative Procedure Act.

Related Cases
  • Government Accountability Project v. United States Office of Personnel Management, Case No. 1:25-cv-00347 (D.D.C.).
  • Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. Trump et al., Case No. 8:25-cv-00260-PX (D. Md.).
  • American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump et al., Case No. 1:25-cv-00264 (D.D.C.). 

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