WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. authorities has employed 50,000 workers since President Donald Trump took workplace, his prime personnel official stated, with the brand new employees largely in nationwide safety positions reflecting the administration’s coverage focus.
The majority of the brand new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stated Scott Kupor, the federal authorities’s human assets director, in an interview on Thursday evening.
The employees adjustments are a part of Trump’s marketing campaign to recast the federal government whereas sharply reducing different federal jobs.
“It’s about reshaping the workforce to give attention to the priorities that we predict are most necessary,” Kupor stated.
The administration introduced on the brand new workers whereas freezing hiring and shedding staff in different components of the federal government, such because the Inside Income Service and the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
The administration expects to shed about 300,000 staff this yr, Kupor stated in August.
Trump appointed billionaire Elon Musk in January to launch a venture to downsize the two.4 million-strong federal civilian workforce. Musk, with Trump’s backing, stated the federal workforce had grow to be too massive and too inefficient.
Trump’s administration dismissed workers charged with imposing civil rights legal guidelines, gathering tax income and overseeing clear vitality initiatives.
As a part of the downsizing, about 154,000 workers accepted a buyout supply from the Trump administration. The buyouts impacted a variety of presidency actions, together with climate forecasting, meals security, well being packages and house initiatives, in keeping with former federal workers and unions who spoke to Reuters earlier this yr. (Reporting by Courtney Rozen; Modifying by Sonali Paul)