Creating Schedule G in the Excepted Service
Honest Title:
Schedule G: Stripping Merit Protections to Enable At-Will Political Patronage
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Constitutional Risk
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High RiskSigned by: Donald J. Trump
Signed: 7/17/2025
Last Updated: 3/13/2026
Executive Order
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The creation of Schedule G expands the spoils system by stripping policy-making roles of protections. Republicans miss that this empowers future liberal purges; Democrats ignore the bureaucratic inertia driving this demand. Prioritizing loyalty risks institutional collapse and churn.
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