Trump signs an executive decree limiting federal hiring

• President Donald Trump has signed a new decree that will limit federal hiring.
• The order indicates that federal agencies can only hire one employee for four employees who leave.
• Agency leaders will have to work with Elon Musk Doge to reduce their staff, added the order.

President Donald Trump has advanced his goal of reducing government size on Tuesday when he signed a new decree to limit federal hiring.

The order said that each federal agency cannot “hire more than one employee for four employees who leave”.

The restriction will not apply to posts related to public security, the application of immigration or the police. It will take effect on the expiration of the 90-day job frost that Trump imposed on the federal workforce when he took office on January 20.

The ordinance also indicated that agency leaders will have to work with the Elon Musk Government Ministry, or DOGE, to reduce the size of the federal workforce.

“There are too many federal employees. Excluding employees of military and postal services in active service, the federal workforce exceeds 2.4 million,” said the White House in a information sheet on the Order published Tuesday.

Speaking alongside Trump in the oval office, Musk said that the Doge cuts were “just common sense”.

“People voted for a major government reform and that’s what people will get,” Musk said on Tuesday.

The representatives of the White House and Doge did not respond to the requests for comments from Business Insider.

Trump has intensified his efforts to reduce the federal workforce since the start of his second term.

Last month, the Trump administration gave federal employees from January 28 to February 6 to accept a buyout offer. The offer has been submitted to all federal employees, with the exception of those who work in military, postal, immigration and national security roles.

Last week, the American district judge George O’Toole Jr. extended the deadline for buyout until Monday. O’Toole Jr. said during a judicial hearing on Monday that he would continue to suspend the Trump buyout plan until he reigns over his legality.

A spokesman for the staff management office said on Monday that more than 65,000 employees had accepted the offer. The OPM oversees the federal workforce.