I reported that President Trump issued an executive order freezing hiring for most federal agencies. Now, the IRS has made moves to comply.

President Trump’s directive is supposed to exempt national security and public safety positions, but the F.B.I. has put an immediate hiring freeze in place.

President Trump signed executive orders Monday freezing the hiring of federal workers and mandating a full-time return to in-office work for government employees. Why it matters: The mandates will affect the many thousands of federal workers who live and work in the DMV.

This is how long the hiring freeze will last and the implications for federal employees, those with job offers and college graduates and students.

President Trump’s new federal hiring freeze has congressional lawmakers and former service members worried that operations at Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities will be hindered. The government-wide freeze,

Meanwhile, another set of orders involves federal workers. Aside from wanting workers to return to offices, the new president has ordered a hiring freeze. Profit and prosper with the best of expert advice on investing,

It means some open jobs at the Audie Murphy VA Hospital and military hospitals such as Wilford Hall and Brooke Army Medical Center will go unfilled.

The president is throwing the federal government, and the welfare of the men and women who fought for the nation, into chaos

The acting Veterans Affairs secretary said in a Jan. 21 memo that the requested exemptions cover positions critical to the delivery of health care services.

A federal hiring freeze is a big deal in St. Louis, where the government is one of the area's biggest employers.