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• BOTH PARTIES IN CONGRESS CLAMORING FOR MORE HIRING FREEZE EXEMPTIONS - March 6, 2017

• Bipartisan Demands for More Hiring Freeze Exemptions Are Piling Up

  By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Yet another set of lawmakers has requested that an exemption to President Trump’s federal hiring freeze be allowed -- this time to ensure child care services at Army bases continue uninterrupted.

  A letter from Reps. Jason Chaffetz, Utah, and Mark Meadows, N.C., the top-ranked Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to acting Army Secretary Robert Spicer is the latest in a series of requests from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle looking for carve outs in Trump’s hiring moratorium and ensuring that existing exemptions are followed. The oversight leaders’ appeal comes on the heels of reports of several bases shuttering part-day childcare programs due to an inability to hire staff. Defense Department-wide guidance, following broad exemption authority spelled out in Trump’s initial memorandum, allowed services to fill civilian positions “providing child care to the children of military personnel” with permission from the service chief. 

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