Reinstate Schedule F to support the department's reforms
What the document says“President Trump’s Schedule F proposal”
The full passage says the Schedule F proposal on accountability in hiring must be reinstituted to bring success to these reforms. The chapter also says states are better resource managers than the federal government because they must live with the results, and asks the department to broaden state and tribal cooperative agreements. Schedule F is the subject of a separate proposal in chapter 3.
What the document actually says“President Trump’s Schedule F proposal”
There was a plan called Schedule F. President Trump put it forward.
Schedule F would make some staff easy to fire. It covers workers whose jobs shape policy. This chapter says it is needed here too.
Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8625
EO 14171 reinstates EO 13957, the Schedule F order, with amendments, renames the schedule Schedule Policy/Career, and revokes the 2021 order that had undone it. That is the reinstatement the passage asks for, and it applies across the government. The order places no Interior position in the schedule by itself, which happens by agency recommendation under OPM's final rule of February 6, 2026, and positions in the schedule stay career and nonpartisan rather than becoming political. None of the candidates offered here is that order: three are cases and one is a Transportation Department procedures rule.
The order brings back a 2020 job class and gives it a new name. It also pulls the 2021 order that had undone it. That is the step the passage asks for, and it covers the whole government. But no job at the Interior Department is placed in the class here. That happens when an agency asks, under a rule from February 2026. Such jobs stay career, not political.
1 agency rule
- Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil ServicePersonnel Management Office · February 6, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.