The White House is rolling out a new “merit-based” federal hiring plan and has explicitly ordered agencies not to take race and gender into consideration when hiring.
“The American people deserve a federal workforce dedicated to American values and efficient service,” Vince Haley, assistant to President Donald Trump for domestic policy, and Charles Ezell, acting director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, said in a press release.
“Yet, Federal hiring criteria long ago abandoned any serious need for technical skills and adherence to the Constitution. Instead, the overly complex Federal hiring system overemphasized discriminatory ‘equity’ quotas and too often resulted in the hiring of unfit, unskilled bureaucrats. The American people, who deserve a government that works for them, have suffered.”
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