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> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 23, 2017

January 23, 2017

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT: Hiring Freeze

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order a freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees to be applied across the board in the executive branch. As part of this freeze, no vacant positions existing at noon on January 22, 2017, may be filled and no new positions may be created, except in limited circumstances. This order does not include or apply to military personnel. The head of any executive department or agency may exempt from the hiring freeze any positions that it deems necessary to meet national security or public safety responsibilities. In addition, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may grant exemptions from this freeze where those exemptions are otherwise necessary.

Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Director of OPM, shall recommend a long-term plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government's workforce through attrition. This order shall expire upon implementation of the OMB plan.

Contracting outside the Government to circumvent the intent of this memorandum shall not be permitted.

This hiring freeze applies to all executive departments and agencies regardless of the sources of their operational and programmatic funding, excepting military personnel.

In carrying out this memorandum, I ask that you seek efficient use of existing personnel and funds to improve public services and the delivery of these services. Accordingly, this memorandum does not prohibit making reallocations to meet the highest priority needs and to ensure that essential services are not interrupted and national security is not affected.

This memorandum does not limit the nomination and appointment of officials to positions requiring Presidential appointment or Senate confirmation, the appointment of officials to non-career positions in the Senior Executive Service or to Schedule C positions in the Excepted Service, or the appointment of any other officials who serve at the pleasure of the appointing

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authority. Moreover, it does not limit the hiring of personnel where such a limit would conflict with applicable law. This memorandum does not revoke any appointment to Federal service made prior to January 22, 2017.

This memorandum does not abrogate any collective bargaining agreement in effect on the date of this memorandum.

DONALD J. TRUMP

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In a report due that was due months ago to the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, the General Services Administration said its new approach — rebuilding the agency’s current headquarters in downtown Washington — would provide the FBI with a building “capable of supporting national security … while providing a good deal for the taxpayer.”

The Trump administration said Monday it plans to pull away from a proposal to build a new headquarters for the FBI in suburban Washington, dashing hopes that the project would be built in Maryland following years of planning and lobbying by state officials

The move was a significant blow to Maryland and Virginia, which had been competing for years for the project and its anticipated 11,000 jobs. The Trump administration halted the effort last year, citing a lack of funding from Congress.

Democrats in Maryland blasted the news Monday as “outrageous"

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had said it wanted to “fully consolidate” its operations for security and efficiency. The agency currently is spread out across dozens of field offices around Washington. Its current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, requires an estimated $80.5 million in renovations and upgrades.

The General Services Administration said the “work of the FBI requires a modern and secure headquarters with technology and equipment to support the men and women of the FBI who are dedicated to keeping our country safe.”

In a statement, the agency said that its recommendation “provides for the new headquarters the FBI needs to accomplish its important work.”

But a copy of the report obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows that the new building in Washington would not fully consolidate the agency. Instead, the document refers to a “nationally focused consolidation” that would move

roles that the GSA says do not need to be conducted in Washington to federally owned sites in Idaho, Alabama and West Virginia.

The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee requested the report in November after the agency put the project on pause.

A spokesman for Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Republican chairman of the committee, said he had received the report and that the committee would discuss it at a hearing set for Feb. 28. Barrasso criticized the GSA in January, calling it “unacceptable” that the agency failed to meet the deadline it had set to finish the report.