President Donald Trump plans to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers, reducing their civil service protection and making it easier to dismiss career employees, according to Axios.

On Friday, Axios reported that the Trump administration is set to reclassify 50,000 federal employees, about 2% of the federal workforce, as “at will” workers under Schedule F, a new employment category for federal workers established by an executive order Trump issued in his first term and renamed “Schedule Policy/Career” in an order issued on the first day of his second term.

This category would make it much easier for the Trump administration to dismiss longtime civil servants and other federal workers “in policy-influencing roles for poor performance, misconduct, corruption, or subversion of presidential directives, without lengthy procedural hurdles.”

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