Trump targets telework, federal workers in first executive orders

Source: WTOP

Trump signs first executive actions as president during inaugural rally in DC

Thomas Robertson trobertson@wtop.com
January 20, 2025, 6:41 PM

President Donald Trump's first act on his return to the White House was to sign executive orders that called for a federal hiring freeze and the return of government workers back to the office. ... He did it during the indoor inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena in D.C. The parade moved indoors due to frigid temperatures.

"I'm revoking nearly 80 disruptive, radical executive actions of the previous administration, they'll all be null and void within about, what, five minutes?" Trump said, followed by the signing of the first round of executive orders before a jubilant crowd of his supporters Monday night.

He issued a temporary hiring freeze, "to ensure that we're only hiring competent people who are faithful to the American public," and he's pausing the hiring of any new IRS agents and is requiring the return of federal workers to the office.

Here is a list of orders Trump signed.
https://wtop.com/inauguration/2025/01/inauguration-day-latest-trump-becomes-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states/

Before Trump took the podium, headline speakers such as Elon Musk, Kash Patel and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin touted the imminent return of America's glory days, when, they said, housing was affordable, cities were safe and the country was at the forefront of innovation.

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Thomas Robertson
Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.
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