In Step Towards Privatization, Trump Enacts Federal Hiring Freeze

Lauren McCauley explains at Common Dreams, in In Step Towards Privatization, Trump Enacts Federal Hiring Freeze, … [A]s AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. pointed out, the freeze will ‘actually increase taxpayer costs by forcing agencies to hire more expensive contractors to do work that civilian government employees are already doing for far less.’ In effect, it’s a step towards privatizing the federal government. ‘Numerous studies have shown that contractors are two to three times more costly than each federal employee they replace,’ Cox said. “President Trump’s federal hiring freeze will result in more government waste as agencies are forced to hire high-priced contractors to do the work that federal employees can and should be doing.’”