OPM issues Schedule F implementing guidance directing agencies to identify policy-influencing positions for at-will reclassification - potentially affecting 50,000+ roles.

Schedule Policy/Career excepted-service implementation keeps converting career protections into political loyalty screens across the administrative state.

Eliminate-fraud task-force orders concentrate investigatory narrative power in the executive while inspectors general and GAO capacity remain contested.

Schedule Policy/Career excepted-service conversion remains the personnel spine of loyalty screening across agencies after Pass 31 documentation.