Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service

2026-06-10Executive Order 14410
Signed by: Donald Trump
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

Executive Order 14410 of June 3, 2026

Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the
Excepted Service

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including sections 3301, 3302, 5595 and 7511
of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The President relies on
subordinates in the executive branch to help him
faithfully execute the laws and advance the priorities
for which he was elected by the American people.
Officials in confidential, policy-determining, policy-
making, and policy-advocating roles (policy-influencing
positions) play particularly important roles in helping
him fulfill this constitutional duty. Therefore,
ensuring that such employees can be removed for
misconduct or poor performance is essential to
protecting democratic self-government by an elected
President.

To enhance accountability in these policy-influencing
positions, Executive Order 13957 of October 21, 2020
(Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service), as
amended by Executive Order 14171 of January 20, 2025
(Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing
Positions Within the Federal Workforce), created
Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service.
Schedule Policy/Career positions are policy-influencing
career positions that will be filled based on merit and
not political affiliation. At the same time, Schedule
Policy/Career positions are exempted from the adverse
action procedures that make removals for poor
performance or misconduct so difficult that barely two-
fifths of Federal supervisors believe they could remove
subordinates who engage in serious misconduct, and only
a quarter believe they could remove serious
underperformers. Further, two-thirds of senior Federal
executives report that their agencies rarely or never
reassign or dismiss underperforming managers.

Senior policy-influencing positions must be transferred
into Schedule Policy/Career to increase accountability
in such positions. This order effectuates these
transfers and amends the Civil Service Rules and
Regulations and previous Executive Orders to implement
Schedule Policy/Career. In addition to ensuring
accountability for poor performance, this order also
advances merit in the Federal civil service by
directing executive departments and agencies (agencies)
to appropriately recognize and reward Schedule Policy/
Career employees for outstanding work.

Sec. 2. Amendments to the Civil Service Rules and
Regulations. (a) Civil Service Rule I is amended by
removing the text of 5 CFR 1.3(d) that follows the
words ``Provided, that an employee who is in the
competitive service'' and adding in its place ``with
competitive status at the time his position is first
listed under Schedule A, B, C, Policy/Career or G shall
be in the excepted service but shall retain his
competitive status.''

(b) Civil Service Rule III is amended by adding at
the end of 5 CFR 3.1(a) a new paragraph 5 that reads:
``(5) An employee whose initial appointment was to a
Pathways Program position in Schedule D of the excepted
service, and who was subsequently converted to a
position in Schedule Policy/Career, with or without an
intervening term appointment, and without a break in
service of one day.''
(c) Civil Service Rule VI is amended as follows:

(i) 5 CFR 6.2 is amended by:

(A) revising the first sentence to read: ``OPM shall publish at least
annually a list of the positions excepted from the competitive service in
the following schedules, which constitute parts of this rule:''; and

(B) revising the second sentence of the paragraph labeled ``Schedule
Policy/Career'' to read: ``In appointing an individual to a position in
Schedule Policy/Career, each agency shall follow merit-based hiring
procedures as may be prescribed by OPM and shall follow the principle of
veteran preference as far as administratively feasible.''

(ii) 5 CFR 6.8 is amended by adding a new subsection (e) to read: ``(e) An
employee in the competitive service serving a probationary period when his
position is first listed under Schedule Policy/Career of the excepted
service shall acquire competitive status upon satisfactorily completing 1
year of current continuous service in that position.''

(d) Civil Service Rule XI is amended by revising 5
CFR 11.3(a) by removing the period at the end and
inserting in its place the following text: ``; provided
that individuals appointed to positions in Schedule C,
Schedule E, Schedule Policy/Career, and Schedule G are
not subject to trial periods.''
(e) Subsection (c) of the definition of
``Qualifying appointment'' at 5 CFR 550.703 is revised
to read: ``(c) An excepted appointment without time
limitation, except under Schedule C or Schedule G, or
another noncareer appointment.''
(f) 5 CFR 550.704(b) is amended by striking ``or''
at the end of subparagraph (4), striking the period at
the end of subparagraph (5) and inserting ``; or'' in
its place, and adding a new subparagraph (6) as
follows: ``(6) Occupies a position in Schedule Policy/
Career of the excepted service and his or her agency
identifies unacceptable performance or misconduct as
the basis for separation in a written notice to the
employee.''
(g) Within 60 days of the date of this order the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall
take steps to prepare and issue revisions that remove
or update, as applicable, obsolete provisions of the
Civil Service Rules that do not substantively affect
agency operations.

Sec. 3. Amendments to Executive Orders. (a) Executive
Order 13957, as amended by Executive Order 14171, is
further amended as follows:

(i) by removing the fourth paragraph of section 1; and

(ii) by amending section 5(a) by removing everything that follows
``Following such reviews each agency head'' and inserting in its place:
``shall petition the Director to recommend that the President place in
Schedule Policy/Career any such competitive service, Schedule A, Schedule
B, or Schedule D positions within the agency that the agency head
determines to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or
policy-advocating character and that are not normally subject to change as
a result of a Presidential transition. Any such petition shall include a
written explanation documenting the basis for the agency head's
determination that such position should be placed in Schedule Policy/
Career.''

(b) Executive Order 13562 of December 27, 2010
(Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates),
as amended by Executive Order 14217 of February 19,
2025 (Commencing the Reduction of the Federal
Bureaucracy), is further amended by adding a new
sentence at the end of section 5(c): ``Such career
appointments may include positions in Schedule Policy/
Career, subject to review by OPM.''

Sec. 4. Performance Awards. (a) Consistent with 5 CFR
Part 451 and applicable law, the head of each agency
with employees in Schedule Policy/Career is directed to
set aside a separate bonus pool, and use existing award
authorities, to ensure that Schedule Policy/Career
employees are appropriately recognized and rewarded for
outstanding work.

(b) The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall promptly initiate a rulemaking
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4504 and 4506 to create a
Presidential award program for Schedule Policy/Career
employees.

Sec. 5. Schedule Policy/Career Determination and
Transfer. (a) The positions set forth in the Appendix
to this order are determined to have a confidential,
policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating
character. It is further determined that it is
necessary and warranted by conditions of good
administration to except these positions from the
competitive service because of their confidential,
policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating
character.

(b) The positions set forth in the Appendix to this
order are hereby placed in Schedule Policy/Career of
the excepted service. Subsequent changes to a listed
position description's numbering or a position's
organizational realignment do not alter its placement
in Schedule Policy/Career.
(c) The head of each agency with positions covered
by subsection (b) of this section shall within 7 days
of the date of this order:

(i) notify officers or employees encumbering such positions of their
placement in Schedule Policy/Career; and

(ii) conform agency records and practices to reflect the changes made by
this order.

Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the
application of any provision to any person or
circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of
this order and the application of any of its other
provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall
not be affected thereby.
(e) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the Office of Personnel Management.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 3, 2026.

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