The order tells the Secretary of State to reform recruitment, evaluation, and retention standards to ensure that all State Department employees fully carry out President Trump's America First foreign policy agenda. Foreign Service Officers have long implemented presidents' initiatives regardless of their party, but this order politicizes their work by suggesting any officer who shows dissent or contradicts Trump will be fired. The order expands President Trump's Schedule Policy/Career (formerly known as Schedule F) directive by trying to make it easier to fire non-political government workers who are not fully aligned with President Trump's agenda. It reverses the longstanding principle of the Foreign Service that officers are hired and promoted for their merit, expertise, and experience, rather than their political loyalty.