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Undated: The 2017 United States federal hiring freeze was instituted by the Presidential Memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on January 23, 2017. Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney ordered the hiring freeze lifted on April 12, 2017.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States_federal_hiring_freeze
April 11: White House: Federal hiring freeze over, 'surgical' cuts begin
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/donald-trump-budget-cuts-mick-mulvaney/index.html
April 14: Some Agencies Are Extending the Hiring Freeze Trump Just Ended
https://www.govexec.com/management/2017/04/some-agencies-are-extending-hiring-freeze-trump-just-ended/137041/
May 10: With President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze lifted, many feds expected a rush of hiring to begin. If you are familiar with past hiring freezes, that idea makes sense. In earlier freezes, agencies continued advertising jobs during the freeze, then rushed to make offers as soon as possible after the freeze was lifted.
Those freezes differed from today, because agency heads typically wanted to staff up their agencies. With this administration, there are many agency heads who are more interested in reducing the size of their workforce. Couple that with a 2018 budget proposal that called for massive cuts in some agencies, and the result is something we might term as a hiring slush. It isn’t quite frozen, but it isn’t quite thawed.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2017/05/is-there-still-a-hiring-freeze/
December 5: How Did the Federal Hiring Freeze Impact Jobs? The Raw Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story.
https://www.icf.com/blog/human-capital/federal-hiring-freeze-2017-jobs-impact
December 12: Trump's push to cut federal jobs has modest impact, mostly in defense
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-effect-federal-employment/trumps-push-to-cut-federal-jobs-has-modest-impact-mostly-in-defense-idUSKBN1E61DK
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January 23: No sign of a revived hiring freeze for now
Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump took a significant step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to impose "a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce (the) federal workforce through attrition," exempting military, public safety, and public health positions.
Trump imposed a freeze, but in April, his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, released a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies. Mulvaney said during a press briefing April 11 that the administration would be replacing the initial freeze "with a smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan." The lifted ban, he said, "does not mean that the agencies will be free to hire willy-nilly."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1352/impose-hiring-freeze-federal-employees/
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