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Trump will require agency plans to slash workforce as he lays out hiring freeze details
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ Federal agencies must develop plans to reduce the size of their workforces through efficiencies and attrition, President Trump announced on Monday, spelling out in a memorandum that they must roll out those proposals before lifting the hiring freeze he has put into place. Trump froze federal hiring on (more...)
Trump: Agencies should fire 'all' bureaucrats
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President Trump is expected to sign a series of executive orders Monday targeting the rights of federal workers and rolling back telework usage at federal agencies. Transition officials have touted that the new president will sign upwards of 200 executive actions Monday, including an expansion of immigration enforcement, (more...)
Here's who is leading federal agencies as Trump nominees await confirmation
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President Trump was sworn into office on Monday, though he has taken the reins of the executive branch without any of his leaders requiring Senate confirmation in place. Federal agencies will be led in the interim almost exclusively by career federal executives, with Trump only bringing in one (more...)
GSA will ‘recommit’ to ‘founding purpose,’ says acting administrator
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as acting leader of the General Services Administration told the agency’s workforce today that GSA is “recommitting itself to its founding purpose: ensuring government-wide efficiency and maximizing value for the American taxpayer,” in an email obtained by Nextgov/FCW. Stephen Ehikian — formerly (more...)
TSA head who oversaw pipeline cyber rules pushed out by Trump
This post first appeared on Next Gov. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske has been asked to step down from his role by the Trump transition team and will be replaced by a new official in the administration, according to multiple reports. An internal memo circulated by multiple outlets said that Pekoske’s time as TSA (more...)
What Trump’s inaugural address means for federal employees
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ Donald Trump returned to the presidency on Monday with a promise to “immediately restore the integrity, competency and loyalty of America’s government.” The president is expected to take many executive actions in the coming days. Some that will affect federal employees include freezing government hiring, as he did (more...)
Trump to again freeze federal hiring
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President Trump will institute a government hiring freeze that will include some exceptions, his team announced just after his swearing in. The order is expected to take effect immediately after Trump signs it Monday, his first day in office, and mirrors action Trump took upon taking office in (more...)
She was the first Black woman to run the U.S. budget. She doesn’t want to be the last.
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ After a 15-year career as a staffer on the Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives, Shalanda Young became President Joe Biden’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, the first Black woman to serve in this role. She formally took office in March 2022, after serving (more...)
Trump's Day 1 border actions will empower DHS staff and deploy military
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President-elect Trump will immediately take action to empower federal personnel to detain and deport migrants in and crossing into the country, an incoming White House official said just ahead of inauguration in detailing some of the 200 executive actions Trump plans to issue on his first day in (more...)
Tracking Trump’s national-security conflicts of interest
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ It is a quirk of constitutional checks-and-balances interpretation that presidents are generally exempt from laws that seek to prevent U.S. officials from acting in their own interests instead of the country’s. Still, modern chief executives have customarily taken steps to reduce such conflicts of interest—particularly to keep the (more...)