President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that creates a new class of federal employees who might help tighten his grip on the government’s policymaking apparatus.
The executive order sets up Schedule G, a new classification for workers who will not be career civil servants and will be expected to exit their positions when the president who appointed them leaves the White House.
Schedule G employees will “help faithfully implement the President’s policy agenda,” a White House fact sheet said, enhancing efficiency and services “by increasing the horsepower for agency implementation of Administration policy.”
Don Kettl, professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, told POLITICO’s E&E News, “The inevitable result of creating Schedule G is creating the ability to vastly increase the number of political appointees throughout the executive branch.”
