# Second Trump Term - A Primer on Schedule F and How it will Reshape Our Government **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 23, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/second-trump-term-a-primer-on-schedule-f-and-how-it-will-reshape-our-government/968410 "2022-07-23T05:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/second-trump-term-a-primer-on-schedule-f-and-how-it-will-reshape-our-government/968410/18 "2022-07-24T17:40:57Z")
Some of us tried to wave the flag on this as it was happening, but the insanity preceding and after the election pretty much pushed this story out of the media. I agree that this is one of the primary threats of a second term Trump, or really any Trumpist Republican winning the White House. > [@If Trump loses, what does it mean "He won't go quietly."?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-loses-what-does-it-mean-he-wont-go-quietly/923352/73): > > In a bit of an underreported story, Trump recently issued an executive order [stripping the civil service protections](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-order-federal-civil-service/2020/10/22/c73783f0-1481-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html) from tens of thousands of federal employees. Meaning that those employees could be fired at will and replaced by political hacks whose loyalty is to Trump. Interestingly, he seems to be setting this up to take effect January 19 – the day before the inauguration – but he could move that up sooner if he wanted to. Potentially, this could let him stack the civil service with hundr… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/second-trump-term-a-primer-on-schedule-f-and-how-it-will-reshape-our-government/968410)._