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Pursuant to the President’s direction by Executive Order, Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service, on June 3, 2026, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will issue a direct final rule with 60 days of the order to update and amend obsolete and outdated provisions of the Civil Service Rules that do not substantively affect agency operations. The Civil Service Rules govern fundamental aspects of Federal employment, including appointments, examinations, certain prohibited practices, and probationary periods. The last comprehensive revision of the Civil Service Rules occurred under President Eisenhower in 1954. This rule is required to revise the rules to remove obsolete provisions of the rules that do not substantively affect agency operations or current rights.