Excerpt: “Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum extending the hiring freeze for an additional three months.
- The freeze, originally implemented on January 20, 2025, prohibits filling vacant federal civilian positions or creating new ones, with minor exceptions.
- Exemptions from the freeze for necessary positions—including for immigration enforcement, national security, and public safety—shall remain.
- This Memorandum extends the hiring freeze through July 15, 2025.
- It also clarifies that once a merit hiring plan has been adopted, any hiring of employees exempt from the freeze shall be consistent with that plan.
- Upon expiration of the hiring freeze and implementation of the hiring plan, agencies will be able to hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart from federal service (with appropriate immigration, law enforcement, and public safety exceptions).”
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