WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term.

He’s starting the process of reclassifying 50,000 federal employees under what’s known as Schedule F, which can make civil servants into political appointees or other at-will workers, who are more easily dismissed from their jobs. That means they’ll have less civil service protection.

Remaking the federal workforce is part of a larger Trump administration push to dramatically shrink the size of government and exert more control over it.

The proposal follows an executive order Trump signed shortly after retaking the presidency, and was being published in the Federal Register. Trump announced the latest move online.

“If these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the President, or are engaging in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job,” he wrote on his social media site.

— The Associated Press