Following Pressure From Wyden and Colleagues, Trump Administration Confirms No Frontline Workers Have Been Recategorized as “Schedule F” at Social Security
The recategorization of Social Security workers would pave the way for mass firings
Washington, D.C. – Following U.S. Senator Ron Wyden sounding the alarm on the Trump administration stripping civil service protections at the Social Security Administration, the administration has confirmed that no frontline workers have been reclassified at the agency.
Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano confirmed that the agency has not yet reclassified any workers as Schedule F policy-making employees.
“The Trump administration’s plan to reclassify Social Security staff is nothing but a ploy to make it easier to install his cronies in a government agency vital to millions of people in Oregon and nationwide receiving benefits they’ve earned in a timely fashion,” Wyden said. “I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make sure the Administration’s disastrous plan hasn’t moved forward, and I won’t take my foot off the gas.”
Schedule F workers is a new category of government employees who can be fired at any point and who lack the same rights that protect other federal workers from being terminated. Additionally, it is unclear whether Schedule F employees are included in collective bargaining units or eligible for union representation.
“SSA’s broad reclassification of employees under seemingly false pretenses appears to be a deliberate effort to allow DOGE to purge SSA of the employees who work dutifully to make sure Americans receive their earned benefits,” Wyden and other Democratic lawmakers wrote in a letter to Bisignano in May.
The Social Security War Room is an effort by Senate Democrats to fight back against the Trump administration’s attack on Social Security. The War Room coordinates messaging across the Senate Democratic Caucus and external stakeholders,encourages grassroots engagement, and educates Senate staff, the American public, and stakeholders about Republicans’ agenda and their continued cuts to Social Security services and benefits.
The text of the SSA’s response is here.
The text of the original letter is here.
A web version of this release is here.
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