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E&E News
02-08-2025
- Politics
- E&E News
Wanted: Feds ‘committed to improving efficiency'
The National Park Service is seeking a fire protection engineer to work in its Philadelphia office. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, willing to work overtime and should be 'passionate about the ideals of our American republic,' the job listing says. The Trump administration has added new language about federal efficiency and American ideals to every job opening posted on the federal hiring website USAJOBS, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday. It's part of the administration's broader 'merit hiring plan' that the administration says will streamline and improve the federal hiring process. Advertisement One key element of Trump's hiring overhaul is to ensure that 'only the most talented, capable and patriotic Americans are hired to the Federal service,' according to an OPM memo issued to agency leaders in May.
E&E News
30-05-2025
- Business
- E&E News
Trump admin to prioritize ‘patriotic Americans' for fed jobs
As President Donald Trump moves to slash the size of the federal workforce, his administration unveiled a plan to ensure that any new hires are 'patriotic Americans' who vow to advance the president's policy priorities. The White House and the agency that serves as the government's human resources arm Thursday released directives for departments to use when recruiting employees in a memo that represents a dramatic shift in federal hiring procedures. The administration's 'merit hiring plan' comes after Trump ordered a revamp to the federal hiring process on his first day in office. The resulting plan issued this week says it aims to ensure that 'only the most talented, capable and patriotic Americans' are hired by the government. Advertisement The 'overly complex Federal hiring system overemphasized discriminatory 'equity' quotas and too often resulted in the hiring of unfit, unskilled bureaucrats,' says the memo authored by Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, and Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.
