President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that effectively makes it easier to fire thousands of federal workers in senior policy-influencing positions, part of his wider campaign to downsize the government workforce and ensure those that remain are aligned with his agenda. The order reclassifies about 8,000 workers to a Schedule Policy/Career category created during Trump’s first days in his second term, covering positions with a “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating” nature. Roles listed under the category are at-will positions, meaning the government could fire them without a provided reason. Almost all of the reclassified positions are at the highest pay grade for most U.S. civilian federal employees, GS-15, with some earning up to $200,000 annually.…