Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Work With DOGE to Cut Staff, Limit Hiring

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Musk said he wants โ€˜common sense controlsโ€™ applied to government.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 11 directing all agency heads to work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut staff and limit hiring in the federal government.

The president signed the order in the Oval Office alongside DOGE head Elon Musk on Tuesday. Trump discussed weeding out government corruption and let Musk speak about DOGEโ€™s goals.

Musk said he wants โ€œcommon sense controlsโ€ applied to government. The tech CEO added that there remain good people in the federal bureaucracyโ€”which he called an โ€œunelectedโ€ fourth branch of governmentโ€”but that bureaucrats still need to be held accountable.

The order continues Trumpโ€™s efforts to make sweeping changes to federal government and its bureaucracy, after campaign promises to downsize its footprint. He created DOGE by executive order in January to audit federal spending and locate inefficiencies.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to shutter the Department of Education, and his administration has already announced plans to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) into the State Department, drawing the ire of many congressional Democrats who wanted the agency to retain its independence.

According to a fact sheet on Tuesdayโ€™s order provided by the White House, agency heads will consult with DOGE to shrink the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions.

The Office of Personnel Management will create rules to ensure federal workers are โ€œheld to the highest standards of conduct.โ€ After the expiration of the Trump administrationโ€™s Jan. 20 hiring freeze, all federal agencies will be allowed to hire no more than one employee for every four who leave or are released from their positions.

Agencies will also begin plans for large-scale reductions in force and to determine which agency componentsโ€”or agencies themselvesโ€”might be eliminated or combined, the fact sheet states.

A reporter asked Musk about DOGEโ€™s detractors, who have called the advisory commissionโ€™s work a โ€œhostile takeoverโ€ of federal agencies.

โ€œThe people voted for major government reform and thatโ€™s what the people are going to get,โ€ Musk said from the White House. โ€œThatโ€™s what democracy is all about.โ€

Byย Jacob Burg

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