DOJ: Federal Register Notice Outlines DOGE Workforce Cuts, Hiring Limits, and Potential Slowdowns

DOJ: Federal Register Notice Outlines DOGE Workforce Cuts, Hiring Limits, and Potential Slowdowns

Here's the Federal Register notice about how the DOGE Workforce Optimization Initiative is supposed to be initiated. I expect that most functions we work with will slow down.

  • Each agency is allowed to hire no more than one person per four that depart (unless they're public safety, immigration, enforcement, or law enforcement; there will be argument determining which of the agencies we interact with are that)
  • Agency heads are supposed to initiate large reductions in force (RIF); this again doesn't apply to public safety, immigration, enforcement, or law enforcement.

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