Resource: EO 13957 - Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service

By: President Donald Trump

October 21, 2020

Federal Register

Reclassifying certain civil service positions, defined as "positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character that are not normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition" as Schedule F Excepted Service positions, thereby giving the President more control over the hiring and firing practices in executive agency roles traditionally reserved for non-partisan career civil servants.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/26/2020-23780/creating-schedule-f-in-the-excepted-service