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The 2025 United States federal hiring freeze is a policy instituted by a presidential memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, on the first day of his second administration immediately instituting a hiring freeze on federal employees. [1]
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump hit the government with a federal hiring freeze on his first day in office, but it won't stop hiring at the Department of Veterans Affairs. After ...
In the first week of Trump's administration, rapid changes to federal programs and reassignments of career staff led to confusion and fear amongst federal employees. [7] [1] On January 25, OPM began sending test emails to all civil servants. As communications in the government are generally kept within each agency, the emails were often flagged ...
President Trump signed an executive order last month enacting a hiring freeze for federal employees. The memorandum is set to expire in 90 days for every department and agency besides the Internal ...
The GAO’s estimation of hiring freezes hadn’t changed much by the time of Trump’s first presidency. In 2017, Gene Dodaro, the office’s top official, testified before Congress that blanket ...
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The hiring freeze follows similar measures instituted by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. In 1982, the Government Accounting Office issued a report on the impact of these freezes and found they had "little effect on Federal employment levels" and "disrupted agency operations, and in some cases, increased costs to the Government."
The hiring freeze applies to all positions in the executive branch except for the military and other categories like national security, public safety and immigration enforcement, according to the ...