Contact Amanda Farnan Press Secretary (774) 571–3639 afarnan@dev.ourpublicservice.org New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ federal workforce October 23, 2020 President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that will reclassify a portion of the career federal workforce, giving agency heads the ability to hire and fire them at will under a new class in the excepted service.