{"id":26906345,"date":"2025-01-21T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/?p=26906345"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:04:15","slug":"how-will-trump-executive-orders-affect-dc-area-federal-workforce-first-of-all-wait-and-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2025\/01\/how-will-trump-executive-orders-affect-dc-area-federal-workforce-first-of-all-wait-and-see\/","title":{"rendered":"How will Trump executive orders affect DC-area federal workforce? &#8216;First of all, wait and see&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.MediaPlayer{ background-color: #20203e;color: #ffffff; padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 0.5rem; }.MediaPlayer a{ color: #ffffff;}<\/style><p>Shortly after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2025\/01\/trump-targets-telework-federal-workers-in-first-executive-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed several executive orders<\/a> that affect federal employees, including a federal hiring freeze and returning government workers to the office full-time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m revoking nearly 80 disruptive, radical executive actions of the previous administration, they&#8217;ll all be null and void within about, what, five minutes?&#8221; Trump said during the event at Capital One Arena in D.C., after the parade had been moved indoors due to frigid temperatures in the area. \n<div class=\"Widget WidgetList WidgetRelatedStories alignright\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"Widget-title widget-title-related-stories\">\n\t\t\tMore Trump news\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"Widget-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"Widget-item\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"Widget-itemLink\" href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2025\/01\/trump-targets-telework-federal-workers-in-first-executive-orders\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"Widget-itemTitle\">Trump targets telework, federal workers in first executive orders<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"Widget-item\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"Widget-itemLink\" href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/inauguration\/2025\/01\/pomp-and-freezing-temperatures-donald-trumps-inauguration-events-in-dc\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"Widget-itemTitle\">&#8216;We needed a change&#8217;: Trump supporters descend on DC to celebrate inauguration<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"Widget-item\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"Widget-itemLink\" href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/government\/2025\/01\/trump-returning-to-power-after-unprecedented-comeback-emboldened-to-reshape-american-institutions\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"Widget-itemTitle\">Trump sets out to erase Biden&#8217;s legacy with pardons and orders immediately after taking office<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>Trump said he was issuing a temporary hiring freeze &#8220;to ensure that we&#8217;re only hiring competent people who are faithful to the American public.&#8221; He&#8217;s also paused the hiring of any new IRS agents and required the return of federal workers to the office.<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center\" ><!-- \/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_300x250 -->\n\t\t<div id='div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0' style='height:250px; width:300px; margin:auto;'>\n\t\t<script>\n\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0'); });\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<p>So what will the executive orders mean in the immediate future and in the long-term for federal workers, many of whom live in the D.C. region?<\/p>\n<p>Jason Miller, executive editor for ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½&#8217;s sister station <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal News Network,<\/a> joined anchor Dimitri Sotis shortly after the executive orders were signed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaPlayer\">\n            <strong class=\"MediaPlayer-title\">What should federal workers expect? Federal News Network's Jason Miller offers perspective<\/strong>\n    \n    \n    <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n    <audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-c231c7008fff5523c6b47fda37822b39\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%; visibility: hidden;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jmillerrawmono.mp3?_=1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jmillerrawmono.mp3?_=1\">https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jmillerrawmono.mp3?_=1<\/a><\/audio>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>On the order mandating the end of telework, Miller said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of anxiety about it \u2014 what will it mean, how many days do I need to be in the office, will we even have enough room in the office?&#8221;<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center\" ><!-- \/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_In-article -->\n\t\t<div id='div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0-2' style='height:250px; width:300px; margin:auto;'>\n\t\t<script>\n\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0-2'); });\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<p>Miller said the one paragraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/return-to-in-person-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Return to In-Person Work&#8221; directive<\/a> includes the phrase &#8220;provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, if your office doesn&#8217;t have enough room, your agency head can say, &#8216;Hey, we&#8217;re still going to stick with telework, because that&#8217;s what makes the most sense for our services,'&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Miller suggested government employees pause before acting.<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center\" ><!-- \/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_In-article -->\n\t\t<div id='div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0-3' style='height:250px; width:300px; margin:auto;'>\n\t\t<script>\n\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0-3'); });\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, wait and see how your management reacts,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;Remember, just because the politicos say, &#8216;Do this,&#8217; there is downward effect. It does take a long time to get down to the people who work day in and day out, and the managers, because those are all career people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miller disputed some of the claims Trump and his supporters have been making about the federal workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keep in mind, more than 54% of all federal workers are already at work, full-time,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;This false narrative that the president and some people have been saying that only 6% of people are at their desks is just kind of silly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In putting the executive orders into perspective, &#8220;What this will do is give the new managers, the political appointees, the ammo to say, &#8216;The president says you need to come, so therefore you need to come,'&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;The Biden administration was saying to the appointees &#8216;you make the decision that&#8217;s best for your agency.&#8217; It&#8217;s not that the Trump administration has taken that out, but they&#8217;re just kind of pushing, pushing harder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What about the hiring freeze?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Miller said there will be hiring freeze for 90 days, in which the Office of Personnel Management and Budget will meet with the &#8220;administrator for the U.S. DOGE service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will submit a plan to reduce the size of the federal workforce, through what they call &#8216;efficiency improvements and attrition,'&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>While originally pitched as an outsider task force, Trump signed an executive order Monday installing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the White House, temporarily, <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/agency-oversight\/2025\/01\/trump-administration-faces-lawsuits-over-doges-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal News Network reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even before Trump signed the executive orders, lawsuits were filed Monday claiming DOGE, which will be led by Elon Musk, violates federal transparency rules.<\/p>\n<p>Public Citizen, State Democracy Defenders Fund and the American Federation of Government Employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PC-SDDF-AFGE-complaint-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed suit<\/a> against Trump and OMB, saying DOGE violates the law regulating the establishment and operation of federal advisory committees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DOGE\u2019s members do not have a fair balance of viewpoints, meetings are held in secret and without public notice, and records and work product are not available to the public,&#8221; according to a press release from the groups involved in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the American Federation of Government Employees&#8217; National President Everett Kelley said Trump is more interested in &#8220;sowing chaos&#8221; than improving government efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no legitimate rationale for slashing the size of the federal workforce. The number of federal workers has grown by roughly 6% over the past 50 years, while the U.S. population served by the federal government has increased by 57%. Meanwhile, spending on the vast shadow workplace of federal contractors has ballooned to account for 11.4% of the federal budget \u2014 nearly $760 billion annually \u2014 while just 4.3% of the budget goes to pay federal employees,&#8221; Kelley said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Scott Michelman, the legal director of the ACLU of D.C., called the executive order for federal workers a &#8220;power-grab by Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The order\u2019s true goal is to target workers based on their real or perceived disloyalty to the president and his political aims,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Stripping federal employees of their rights not only raises First Amendment concerns; it is ineffective way to provide critical services that people rely on every day.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>&#8216;Efficiency is not a new concept&#8217;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As government employees wait to see how the new executive orders affect their daily lives, Miller suggested they &#8220;pay attention to what your agency does for efficiency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a new concept,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;Everyone has always been about efficiency. You&#8217;ve never had an administration say, &#8216;Hey, let&#8217;s be inefficient.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miller said government employees can keep their eyes open and suggest ways for their agency to be more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;ve always said, &#8216;This has bugged me for years, what if we could fix it in this way? Maybe we could have fewer people, or maybe the people can move around,&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>In his 25 years covering the federal government, Miller said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never heard someone say, &#8216;We have too many people.&#8217; I&#8217;ve never heard someone go, &#8216;I have too many people in my office.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"Shortly after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2025\/01\/trump-targets-telework-federal-workers-in-first-executive-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed several executive orders<\/a> that affect federal employees, including a federal hiring freeze and returning government workers to the office full-time.\r\n\r\n\"I'm revoking nearly 80 disruptive, radical executive actions of the previous administration, they'll all be null and void within about, what, five minutes?\" Trump said during the event at Capital One Arena in D.C., after the parade had been moved indoors due to frigid temperatures in the area. [related_stories align=\"right\"]\r\n\r\nTrump said he was issuing a temporary hiring freeze \"to ensure that we're only hiring competent people who are faithful to the American public.\" He's also paused the hiring of any new IRS agents and required the return of federal workers to the office.\r\n\r\nSo what will the executive orders mean in the immediate future and in the long-term for federal workers, many of whom live in the D.C. region?\r\n\r\nJason Miller, executive editor for ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½'s sister station <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal News Network,<\/a> joined anchor Dimitri Sotis shortly after the executive orders were signed.\r\n\r\n[audio mp3=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jmillerrawmono.mp3\" title=\"What should federal workers expect? 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It does take a long time to get down to the people who work day in and day out, and the managers, because those are all career people.\"\r\n\r\nMiller disputed some of the claims Trump and his supporters have been making about the federal workforce.\r\n\r\n\"Keep in mind, more than 54% of all federal workers are already at work, full-time,\" Miller said. \"This false narrative that the president and some people have been saying that only 6% of people are at their desks is just kind of silly.\"\r\n\r\nIn putting the executive orders into perspective, \"What this will do is give the new managers, the political appointees, the ammo to say, 'The president says you need to come, so therefore you need to come,'\" Miller said. \"The Biden administration was saying to the appointees 'you make the decision that's best for your agency.' It's not that the Trump administration has taken that out, but they're just kind of pushing, pushing harder.\"\r\n<h4><strong>What about the hiring freeze?<\/strong><\/h4>\r\nMiller said there will be hiring freeze for 90 days, in which the Office of Personnel Management and Budget will meet with the \"administrator for the U.S. DOGE service.\"\r\n\r\n\"They will submit a plan to reduce the size of the federal workforce, through what they call 'efficiency improvements and attrition,'\" Miller said.\r\n\r\nWhile originally pitched as an outsider task force, Trump signed an executive order Monday installing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the White House, temporarily, <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/agency-oversight\/2025\/01\/trump-administration-faces-lawsuits-over-doges-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal News Network reported<\/a>.\r\n\r\nEven before Trump signed the executive orders, lawsuits were filed Monday claiming DOGE, which will be led by Elon Musk, violates federal transparency rules.\r\n\r\nPublic Citizen, State Democracy Defenders Fund and the American Federation of Government Employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PC-SDDF-AFGE-complaint-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed suit<\/a> against Trump and OMB, saying DOGE violates the law regulating the establishment and operation of federal advisory committees.\r\n\r\n\"DOGE\u2019s members do not have a fair balance of viewpoints, meetings are held in secret and without public notice, and records and work product are not available to the public,\" according to a press release from the groups involved in the lawsuit.\r\n\r\nIn a statement, the American Federation of Government Employees' National President Everett Kelley said Trump is more interested in \"sowing chaos\" than improving government efficiency.\r\n\r\n\"There is no legitimate rationale for slashing the size of the federal workforce. The number of federal workers has grown by roughly 6% over the past 50 years, while the U.S. population served by the federal government has increased by 57%. Meanwhile, spending on the vast shadow workplace of federal contractors has ballooned to account for 11.4% of the federal budget \u2014 nearly $760 billion annually \u2014 while just 4.3% of the budget goes to pay federal employees,\" Kelley said in the statement.\r\n\r\nIn a statement, Scott Michelman, the legal director of the ACLU of D.C., called the executive order for federal workers a \"power-grab by Trump.\"\r\n\r\n\"<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The order\u2019s true goal is to target workers based on their real or perceived disloyalty to the president and his political aims,\" he wrote. \"Stripping federal employees of their rights not only raises First Amendment concerns; it is ineffective way to provide critical services that people rely on every day.\"<\/span>\r\n<h4><strong>'Efficiency is not a new concept'<\/strong><\/h4>\r\nAs government employees wait to see how the new executive orders affect their daily lives, Miller suggested they \"pay attention to what your agency does for efficiency.\"\r\n\r\n\"This is not a new concept,\" Miller said. \"Everyone has always been about efficiency. You've never had an administration say, 'Hey, let's be inefficient.'\"\r\n\r\nMiller said government employees can keep their eyes open and suggest ways for their agency to be more efficient.\r\n\r\n\"If you've always said, 'This has bugged me for years, what if we could fix it in this way? Maybe we could have fewer people, or maybe the people can move around,\" Miller said.\r\n\r\nIn his 25 years covering the federal government, Miller said, \"I've never heard someone say, 'We have too many people.' I've never heard someone go, 'I have too many people in my office.'\"\n\n\n\n\n\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With President Trump signing executive orders he said will streamline the federal government, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ gets perspective on what they mean for the D.C.-area federal workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26905515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,210276,28331,210291,1217559,210371,210296,28341],"tags":[1228095,1263335,30886,1269446,8474,1246001,195896,3750,470,184796],"acf":[],"redirection":false,"hide_featured_media":1,"default_list_image":["https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25021063358170-1024x684.jpg",1024,684,true],"image_credit":"AP\/Evan Vucci","custom_before_content":"","custom_after_content":"","primary_category":"Local News","article_related_alerts":"","related_gallery_type":"enhanced-gallery","shortcode_related_stories":{"title":"More Trump news","content":[{"url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2025\/01\/trump-targets-telework-federal-workers-in-first-executive-orders\/","title":"Trump targets telework, federal workers in first executive orders","image":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2194393399-480x320.jpg","date":false,"sponsored":"","photo_credit":"AFP via Getty Images\/ANGELA WEISS","photo_width":480,"format_icon":""},{"url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/inauguration\/2025\/01\/pomp-and-freezing-temperatures-donald-trumps-inauguration-events-in-dc\/","title":"&#8216;We needed a change&#8217;: Trump supporters descend on DC to celebrate inauguration","image":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-supporter-480x320.jpg","date":false,"sponsored":"","photo_credit":"AFP via Getty Images\/ANGELA WEISS","photo_width":480,"format_icon":""},{"url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/government\/2025\/01\/trump-returning-to-power-after-unprecedented-comeback-emboldened-to-reshape-american-institutions\/","title":"Trump sets out to erase Biden&#8217;s legacy with pardons and orders immediately after taking office","image":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trump_Inauguration_75647-480x320.jpg","date":false,"sponsored":"","photo_credit":"AP\/Saul Loeb","photo_width":480,"format_icon":"<span class=\"article_icon_image fas fa-camera\"><\/span>"}]},"author_detail":{"id":"173412","name":"Neal Augenstein","url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/author\/neal-augenstein\/","image":"","twitter":"@AugensteinÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½"},"dfp_post_head":"<script async='async' src='https:\/\/www.googletagservices.com\/tag\/js\/gpt.js'><\/script>\n\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t  var googletag = googletag || {};\n\t\t\t\t  googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];\n\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n                                <script>\n\t\t\t\t  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n                    googletag.defineSlot('\/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_300x250', [300, 250], 'div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0').addService(googletag.pubads());\n                    googletag.pubads().setTargeting('slug',['how-will-trump-executive-orders-affect-d']);\n                    googletag.pubads().setTargeting('category',['business-finance', 'consumer-news', 'government', 'local', 'local-politics-elections-news', 'national', 'dc', 'white-house']);\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\t\t\t  });\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><script>\n\t\t\t\t  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n                    googletag.defineSlot('\/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_In-article', [300, 250], 'div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0-2').addService(googletag.pubads());\n                    googletag.pubads().setTargeting('slug',['how-will-trump-executive-orders-affect-d']);\n                    googletag.pubads().setTargeting('category',['business-finance', 'consumer-news', 'government', 'local', 'local-politics-elections-news', 'national', 'dc', 'white-house']);\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\t\t\t  });\n                             <\/script><script>\n                googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n                    googletag.defineSlot('\/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_In-article', [300, 250], 'div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0-3').addService(googletag.pubads());\n                    googletag.pubads().setTargeting('slug',['how-will-trump-executive-orders-affect-d']);\n                    googletag.pubads().setTargeting('category',['business-finance', 'consumer-news', 'government', 'local', 'local-politics-elections-news', 'national', 'dc', 'white-house']);\n                    googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n                    googletag.enableServices();\n                });\n                            <\/script>","dfp_post_content":"<!-- \/6585\/ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½_App_300x250 -->\n\t\t<div id='div-gpt-ad-1500658388164-0' style='height:250px; 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