How Will the IRS Function after DOGE Dismissals?

Executive Order 14210 issued by the Trump Administration calls for a "critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy," which provides, among other things, submission of a plan by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reduce the size of the federal government's workforce. An earlier executive order placing a hiring freeze for federal civilian employees requires that each agency hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart. See The White House, Regulatory Freeze Pending Review. However, the order specifically states that such provision does not affect the standing hiring freeze under the earlier executive order as applied to the IRS, which states that the hiring freeze remain in effect for the IRS until the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of OMB and the Administrator of the United States Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service (USDS), determines that it is in the national interest to lift the freeze. 

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