Trump Workforce Hiring Freeze to Stay for IRS After Others’ End

Jan. 21, 2025, 1:33 AM UTC

The Trump administration’s new hiring freeze across the federal workforce will stay in effect for the IRS even after the order expires for all other agencies.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday freezing hiring across the government. Positions that were vacant as of Monday can’t be filled and no new positions can be created.

This memorandum will remain in effect for the IRS until the secretary of the Treasury Department with the director of the Office of Management and Budget and the administrator of the new United States DOGE Servicedetermines that it is in the “national interest to ...

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