After a months-long freeze on hiring new federal employees and the Elon Musk-led DOGE cuts to the government workforce, the Trump administration is ready to resume civil service hiring — as long as the applicants answer a few essay questions about their level of loyalty to the president and his mission.
The Office of Personnel Management last week quietly published a memorandum authored by Vince Haley, the White House’s head of domestic policy that was addressed to the head or acting head of every agency across the entire executive branch.
