Trump launches government restructuring...Cancellation of appointment and suspension of new employment

The second Trump administration has launched a full restructuring of government personnel and organizations.

First of all, he ordered the suspension of new federal officials, the cancellation of employment nominations, and the list of government officials under probation and the results of individual evaluations.

According to Reuters, Trump's second White House delivered an official letter in the name of Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), on the 20th local time, the first day of its launch, ordering federal agencies to stop all new hiring from the 21st and canceling the appointment of existing nominees.

The cancellation policy applies to most of the appointment candidates whose scheduled work start date is after February 8th.

However, areas such as immigration crackdown, national security, and public safety, as well as the military and the Postal Service, were excluded from the policy of suspending new employment.

Exceptions may also be granted if "decisively critical situations" arise in agencies responsible for Social Security, Medicare, and Veterans Affairs.

In a separate letter, the White House OPM ordered each federal department and agency to submit a list of employees in probation by the 24th, and indicated whether each trainee was recommended for employment retention.

Federal officials whose probationary period is not over, which is usually one to two years, are not guaranteed their status.

On the 20th, the first day of his second administration, President Trump banned most federal officials from working from home and made them go to the office five times a week, which has become common since the COVID-19 outbreak.

The second Trump administration seems to have also begun restructuring at the organizational level.

The Washington Post (WP) reported on the 21st that employees working for government agencies in the health sector, including the Department of Health and Welfare (HHS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have been instructed to stop making outside announcements altogether.

As a result, all announcements, including health-related alerts, weekly research trends, publication of health-related statistics, website updates, and social media posts, which were issued from time to time whenever necessary, have been suspended indefinitely.

Some people familiar with the situation told the WP that they expected a review of policy and work during the regime change, but they were perplexed because the announcement was comprehensive and indefinite.

The WP said it had reached out to the agencies for comment, but all declined or had no answer, and had directed them to contact HHS, a top agency.

Some health officials said the suspension of the announcement was all the more concerning because there was a precedent for the first Trump administration to try to change the content of the CDC report to suit Trump's taste during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak.

The WP pointed out that even in the early days of Trump's first period, environmental and scientific institutions and ministries, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of the Interior, had been banned from such external announcements.

Other ministries and institutions, such as the science and technology sector, also show signs of a full review or reorganization of their work to reorganize the organization and manpower.President Trump is considering abolishing the White House National Space Commission (NSpC), according to Reuters on

, but his transition team has not contacted the NSpC ahead of his inauguration, and most of the commission's offices near the White House have been vacated.

Reuters explained that this was likely due to lobbying by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his aides, who have emerged as the most powerful man in Trump's second term.

SpaceX lobbyist Matt Dunn has called the NSpC a "waste of time" in recent months, and people close to Trump reportedly agree.

The NSpC, a successor to the National Aeronautics and Space Commission (NASC), which ran from 1958 to 1973, was established under the presidential office in 1989 under President George H.W. Bush, before being disbanded in 1993 and incorporating related functions into the National Science and Technology Commission (NSTC).

President Trump, who has shown a particular interest in space development, re-created the NSpC in 2017, his first term in office, which the Biden administration maintained.