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Executive Order 13957: Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service

President: Donald J. Trump

Created Schedule F for certain career positions with policy-making or policy-advocating duties and directed agencies to identify covered positions.

Status: Revoked. Is Executive Order 13957 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13957 was revoked. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13957 do?

EO 13957 directed creation of a personnel category for policy-related positions; later revoked by EO 14003.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14003 expressly revoked this order. EO 14171 expressly reinstated this order. EO 14171 expressly amended this order. EO 14410 expressly amended this order. Official source 1 · Official source 2 · Official source 3. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: Any policy rationale or projected benefit in the order is the administration’s position. This index record does not treat those claims as independently established facts.
SignedOctober 21, 2020
IssuerPresident Donald J. Trump
TermFirst presidential term

Before and after

Before the order

Policy-related civil-service positions followed existing competitive and excepted-service rules.

After the order

EO 14003 expressly revoked this order.

EO 14171 expressly reinstated this order.

EO 14171 expressly amended this order.

EO 14410 expressly amended this order.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
PresidentSigned and issued the orderOctober 21, 2020
Named agencies and officialsCarry out directions specified in the orderAccording to the primary text

What happened next

Executive Order 13957 signed.

Later primary evidence reviewed: EO 14003 expressly revoked this order. EO 14171 expressly reinstated this order. EO 14171 expressly amended this order. EO 14410 expressly amended this order.