Project 2025’s plan to gut civil service with mass firings: ‘It’s like the bad old days of King Henry VIII’

Project 2025 , backed by rightwing Heritage Foundation thinktank, has proposed to “dismantle the administrative state’s.

It would set up a system, known as Schedule F , that would revamp the federal bureaucracy so that far more jobs could be filled with political appointees rather than through merit rules.

Many federal employees warn that politicizing’ the civil service will hurt them and millions of Americans .

The Partnership for Public Service conducted a poll of 800 adults last March that found that Americans believe that “having a nonpartisan civil service is important for having a strong American democracy” ( Republicans agreed 87% to 6% ) A new Trump administration would take an expansive view of Schedule F , which would cover federal positions loosely seen as having a say in policy.

Huntsville , where there are more than 21,000 federal employees, could be hit with large-scale layoffs.

Project 2025 ’s recommendations to greatly increase the privatization of federal operations, to abolish government-employee unions and to end collective bargaining for many federal employees.

The more politicized the federal civil service becomes, the harder it will become for the government to attract top-level scientists and professionals.