Mass termination of probationary federal employees across HHS, VA, and EPA - thousands removed with minimal notice, gutting regulatory and service capacity.

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.