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Trump issues Executive Orders affecting Federal Workforce
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"He reinstated a policy that would strip employment protections from tens of thousands of federal workers."
By Washington Post staff 1/20/25
The president ordered federal workers to come back to their offices. The action Trump signed directs agency heads to “take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.”
Trump also issued a freeze on federal hiring with exceptions for military personnel and jobs “related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety.”
He reinstated a policy that would strip employment protections from tens of thousands of federal workers. Trump stripped those protections in his first term in office, and Biden reinstated them. Another memorandum is aimed at “restoring accountability for career senior executives” in the federal government. The memo directs his administration to issue new performance plans for senior government officials who are not political appointees and reassign officials to ensure they are “optimally aligned to implement” his agenda. A different order makes changes to the federal government’s hiring plan.
Trump also signed an order that calls for the elimination of government diversity programs. It includes the termination of all federal offices and positions related to diversity, equity and inclusion as well as environmental justice. The order also directs his administration to review which federal contractors have provided DEI training materials to federal workers and which federal funding grantees have been given funds to advance DEI and environmental justice
"Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary."
