# Executive Order 14410 **"Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service," signed June 3, 2026.** This is the order that actually moved positions. [[Schedule F]] had been waiting for this step since its revival in January 2025. ## Lineage - **October 2020:** Executive Order 13957 creates Schedule F for career employees in "policy-influencing" roles. Biden revokes it in January 2021 before any positions move. - **January 20, 2025:** Trump reinstates it as **Schedule Policy/Career** on his first day back in office. - **March 9, 2026:** [[OPM]]'s final rule implementing the schedule takes effect. - **June 3, 2026:** EO 14410 names the positions. ## What the order does EO 14410 placed the positions listed in a **229-page appendix, roughly 8,000 of them**, into Schedule Policy/Career by presidential determination. **About 97% are at or above GS-15.** The smaller numbers at GS-13 and GS-14 sit mainly in the [[Office of Management and Budget]]. Agency heads had **seven days** to notify affected employees and update their records. The order also: - Amended the Civil Service Rules to preserve competitive status and veterans' preference for these positions. - Exempted the positions from trial periods. - Added a new ground for **denying severance pay** where the agency identifies performance problems or misconduct in writing (5 CFR 550.704(b)(6)). - Directed agencies to set up a **separate bonus pool** for Schedule Policy/Career employees. - Reversed the designation flow: an agency head now *petitions* the OPM Director, who recommends positions to the President. Nothing in the order caps future additions. ## The two readings OPM Director [[Scott Kupor]] framed the schedule as an accountability tool: employees may hold any political views, but refusing lawful orders now provides a basis for removal. [[AFGE]] president Everett Kelley called it "a blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government by eliminating employees' due process rights so they can be fired for political reasons." The practical change is the loss of adverse-action appeal rights for about 8,000 senior career staff. This is the group that carries institutional memory in rule-writing, budget and enforcement offices. ## Litigation posture As of CRS's March 2026 summary, two suits were pending: - **NTEU v. Trump (D.D.C.).** The National Treasury Employees Union filed on January 20, 2025. The case was stayed until positions actually moved. On March 17, 2026, the court let NTEU file an amended complaint within 14 days of a placement order, which EO 14410 is. The central claim is *ultra vires*: that the President exceeded the authority Congress delegated for excepting positions from the competitive service. - **PEER et al. v. Trump (D. Md.).** Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and four other unions challenge both the executive order and the final rule. Filings after June have not been confirmed here. Check both dockets before relying on the status. For what came next — OPM's September 18, 2026 proposed rule writing Schedules E, G and Policy/Career into regulation, and the court order against the merit-hiring "loyalty question" — see [[Excepted Service]] and [[Competitive Service]]. ## See also - [[Federal Workforce Structure Tree]] · [[Schedule F]] · [[Schedule G]] · [[Excepted Service]] · [[Competitive Service]] - [[Scott Kupor]] · [[OPM]] · [[Senior Executive Service]] · [[Civil Service Reform Act of 1978]]