Good evening. I'm William Brangham. Jeff Bennett and Omna Nawaz are away.

On the news hour tonight, President Trump moves forward with plans to make it easier to fire thousands of federal workers if they disagree with his policies.

The lawyer for the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador speaks about the

refusals to return him to the U.S. And the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could

eliminate free access to dozens of preventive health care treatments.

Where Americans had to pay more for everything, we saw that lots and lots of people were deferring essential preventive services.

Welcome to the NewsHour.

President Trump today advanced his plans to make it easier to fire tens of thousands of federal workers.

On social media, he said he would move forward with a rule previously known as Schedule F, which the administration said, quote, will allow agencies to quickly remove

employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or undermine the

democratic process by intentionally subverting presidential directives. Our White House correspondent

Laura Barone Lopez joins us now with the latest.

Laura, President Trump promised that he would do this. So what does this do and how many workers

would this affect? So Schedule F changes the job classification of nonpartisan federal workers,

designating them as political appointees. And so bottom line, it makes it easier for the president to fire anyone that he considers

disloyal and replace them with complete loyalists to his cause and to his agenda.

Now, Schedule F was a part of the Project 2025 blueprint from the Heritage Foundation, and

OMB director Russ Vote was key in drafting this during the first administration, but

they were not able to implement it during the first administration.

And Russ Vote said throughout the campaign that they wanted to traumatize federal workers.

And the White House estimates that this will impact some 50,000 federal workers that could

be laid off, but government experts say that that's probably

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