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Trump Lifting Federal Hiring Freeze
Posted on: April 12, 2017 at 09:39:00 CT
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The Trump administration is lifting a federal hiring freeze as of Wednesday morning.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney announced the policy change in a briefing to reporters Tuesday.
Cautioning "this does not mean agencies will be free to hire willy-nilly," Mulvaney said the across-the-board hiring freeze the president imposed by executive order three days after taking office in January is being replaced with a "smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan."
Trump's hiring freeze was never really across the board; it exempted military personnel, who make up more than a third of the federal workforce, and it also exempted hiring for national security and public safety.
Mulvaney says under the new guidance, some agencies will wind up hiring more people, while others will end up "paring" the number of employees "even greater than they would have during the hiring freeze."
Mulvaney called the new approach "more practicable and smarter" and says it will be based on Trump's initial budget proposal, which called for widespread cuts to several agencies including the EPA, while building up others, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/523473051/trump-lifting-federal-hiring-freeze
The Trump administration is lifting a federal hiring freeze as of Wednesday morning.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney announced the policy change in a briefing to reporters Tuesday.
Cautioning "this does not mean agencies will be free to hire willy-nilly," Mulvaney said the across-the-board hiring freeze the president imposed by executive order three days after taking office in January is being replaced with a "smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan."
Trump's hiring freeze was never really across the board; it exempted military personnel, who make up more than a third of the federal workforce, and it also exempted hiring for national security and public safety.
Mulvaney says under the new guidance, some agencies will wind up hiring more people, while others will end up "paring" the number of employees "even greater than they would have during the hiring freeze."
Mulvaney called the new approach "more practicable and smarter" and says it will be based on Trump's initial budget proposal, which called for widespread cuts to several agencies including the EPA, while building up others, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/523473051/trump-lifting-federal-hiring-freeze
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