Hiring Freeze

Vol. 82

Wednesday,

No. 15

January 25, 2017

Part II

The President

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Memorandum of January 23, 2017--Hiring Freeze

Memorandum of January 23, 2017--The Mexico City Policy

Memorandum of January 23, 2017--Withdrawal of the United States From
the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement

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Title 3--
The President

Memorandum of January 23, 2017

Hiring Freeze

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and
Agencies

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
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.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 23, 2017.