Just weeks after a massive firing blitz throughout government departments, the Trump administration has launched a hiring spree aimed at bringing back thousands of positions, according to a CNN report.
“There are time bombs all over the place in the federal government because of this,” Elaine Kamarck, the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution, told the outlet about the cuts, headed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in the name of cost-cutting.
“They’ve wreaked havoc across nearly every agency.”
CNN claims the hirings are “a warning sign that [the government] has lost more capacities and expertise that could prove critical — and difficult to replace — in the months and years ahead.”
Some of the recent rehires included Voice of America staffers who speak Farsi because of the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
The National Weather Service is also rehiring approximately 125 meteorologists. They lost more than 500 employees due to the DOGE cuts.
Health and Human Services, which is run by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, brought back 450 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees who were let go in April.
CNN reports that department was looking to replace “one-third of the 2,400 workers whose jobs HHS eliminated as part of its 'reduction-in-force’”
Epidemiologist Scott Laney, who was put on “administrative leave” from his federal government job, only to later be brought back, told the outlet there is “still a lot of chaos, sort of throughout the federal workforce.”
The CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, Max Stier, called the Trump administration's moves a “mosaic of incompetence and a failure on the part of this administration to understand the critical value that the breadth of government expertise provides.”
Stier later added, “This is not about a single incident. It’s about a pattern that has implications for our government’s ability to meet not just the challenges of today but the critical challenges of tomorrow.”