[exDemMom]

10) Freezing all Federal Hiring Outside of the Military: Trump followed in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps by putting a federal hiring freeze in place almost immediately after he became president. That’s big, because the first step to shrinking government is to stop adding more people to it.

The hiring freeze affects DOD civilians, as well. Only the uniformed personnel are not affected. I think that the decrease in federal personnel, at least in the DOD, is being done in as gentle a manner as possible--people are not being fired, but they are about to receive incentives to retire. This is a big difference from the Obama administration, which actually fired people to reduce the DOD workforce.

[taildragger]

"but they are about to receive incentives to retire."

Oh, please do tell....

I like many have been through all the rightsizing, downsizing, going forward organization goat rodeos, and it pains me greatly to see our civil servants might have to go through the gut wrenching self examination / reinventing of their departments and themselves....NOT!

So are "packages" being offered? "X" number of years to bridge to 59? Severance? Other Incentives?