The Generals, the Scientists, the Senior Officials. Trump Is Systematically Firing Them. He Follows the Playbook.
A general forced out with no explanation. A scientist reassigned to finance. Eight thousand officials stripped of protection in a day. This is not chaos. It is a technique.
On June 2, 2026, roughly 8,000 of the United States government’s most senior career policy officials lost their civil service protections with a stroke of a pen. They did not resign. They were not accused of misconduct. Their jobs were reclassified under an executive order reviving something called Schedule F — now renamed Schedule Policy/Career — conve…
