Fact Sheet: President Trump Ensures Continued Accountability In Federal Hiring

CEMENTING POLICIES THAT DRIVE ACCOUNTABLE HIRING: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order requiring Federal hiring to follow specific policies and procedures established by agency leadership to improve the efficient delivery of government services.

• The Order directs each agency to establish a Strategic Hiring Committee, consisting of senior agency leadership, to approve all hiring decisions. Such Committees will ensure hiring focuses on agency needs, the national interest, and Administration priorities.
• The Order also requires each agency to create and adhere to an Annual Staffing Plan, to ensure that new career appointments are in the most mission-critical areas, aligned with Administration priorities, and implement the recruitment initiatives of the Administration's previously issued Merit Hiring Plan.
  • The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget will monitor agencies' implementation of their staffing plans on a quarterly basis.
• Appropriate exemptions continue to exist for immigration enforcement, national security, and public safety positions, as well as political positions and certain other hires at the agency head's discretion.
• The Order ensures no adverse impacts on Social Security, Medicare, or veterans' benefits, and allows the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to grant appropriate exceptions as needed.

PROMOTING FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT: President Trump is strengthening hiring practices to ensure taxpayer dollars are used efficiently, improve services provided to Americans, and focus those services on Administration priorities.

• During the last two years of the Biden Administration, government was directly responsible for the creation of more than 1 in every 4 new jobs in America, at the expense of American taxpayers. In contrast, President Trump will not use the Federal government to hide a lagging economy and will support private-sector growth instead.
• In just 8 months, the Trump Administration has dramatically reduced the size of the Federal workforce and exceeded the targeted ratio of 4 departures for each new hire, while still prioritizing hiring in key national security, immigration enforcement, and public safety roles.
• For nearly 25 years, human capital management has been identified as a high-risk area by the Government Accountability Office. Yet, prior to this Administration, hiring decisions were spread across a vast supervisory layer-over 300,000 supervisory positions in the government-leading to diffuse accountability, unfocused hiring, and bloat.
• This Order ensures that Presidential appointees maintain oversight of Federal hiring so that the Federal workforce remains focused on improving essential functions and is fully aligned with Administration priorities.

REFORMING THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY: The American people elected President Trump to drain the swamp and end ineffective government programs that waste taxpayer dollars and empower government without achieving measurable results.

• The government wastes billions of dollars each year on duplicative programs and frivolous expenditures that fail to align with American values or address the needs of the American people.
• The Trump Administration is committed to streamlining the Federal Government, eliminating unnecessary programs, and reducing bureaucratic inefficiency.
• President Trump launched a 10-to-1 deregulation initiative, ensuring every new rule is justified by clear benefits.
• President Trump authorized buyout programs to encourage federal employees to leave voluntarily. Adoption was large across both retirement-eligible and mid-career employees, with agencies able to exclude mission-critical positions from participating. In total, Federal employment attrition was over 300,000 people this year, more than double the historical average. But, unsurprisingly, the Federal government has remained more than capable of delivering on its core functions for the American people.
• Through these actions, President Trump is keeping his promise to restore efficiency and accountability in the Federal Government.