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The Trump administration is reclassifying 50,000 federal workers to make it easier to fire them.
The move follows mass firings under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, as NPR's Daniel Kirchleben reports.
The Office of Personnel Management proposed a rule that would move the reclassification process forward.
Trump will still have to sign another executive order to implement it.
The policy is also known as Schedule F,
and it would remove federal civil service protections from around 2% of the federal workforce,
according to the White House.
Those workers would instead be at-will employees who serve at the pleasure of the sitting president.
The president wrote about the policy on social media on Friday, saying, quote,
if these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the president or are engaging in corrupt behavior,
they should no longer have a job.
Danielle Kirchleben, NPR News.
Well,