BUDGET/CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MIKE MULVANEY: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [4-12-17] will lift the hiring freeze that it had imposed on the federal work force, even as it directs agencies to submit plans for personnel cuts and other restructuring moves to fit the budget blueprint released by President Trump last month.
The new guidance, to be issued by the Office of Management and Budget, is the next step in fulfilling Mr. Trump’s ambition to reshape the federal bureaucracy into a lean, businesslike operation. It comes as many federal workers across Washington have feared that their jobs will be eliminated by the spending cuts that Mr. Trump has demanded.
‘This is a big part of draining the swamp,’ Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, said at a briefing on Tuesday afternoon. ‘This is a centerpiece to his campaign.’ “
-Alan Rapport, “Trump’s Directive Will Lift Hiring Freeze, as It Asks Agencies for Cuts,” The New York Times online, April 11, 2017