Advocates said at the time that the rule would slow Trump's ability to reinstate Schedule F should he win the 2024 election. But Trump signed another executive order on Inauguration Day in January reinstating his 2020 order — and clearing the way for Friday's action.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration is set to change the employment classifications of tens of thousands of federal workers, a move governance experts say will make it easier to carry out more mass layoffs.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Friday said President Donald Trump and his team were continuing to study if they could fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a sign that such a move,

Donald Trump's renewed threats to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raise serious questions about central bank independence and could have frightening consequences for the U.S. economy.

President Donald Trump has tightened his grip on federal staffing even further in a Friday move that makes it easier for him to fire 50,000 civil servants. Trump’s Office of Personnel Management is trying to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers as “at will” employees,