State Department report says 2017 hiring freeze badly hurt agency
1 / 2Pompeo US UKSecretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press availability with Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. WASHINGTON — A 2017 Trump administration hiring freeze at the State Department had devastating effects, hurting core functions such as providing services to U.S. citizens abroad and protecting embassies, the agency's internal watchdog said Friday.
"Several bureaus charged with protecting security, health, and life safety reported to that the hiring freeze had significant detrimental effects," said the report, which was based on surveys of 38 domestic offices and 151 overseas posts. President Donald Trump froze hiring immediately after taking office in January 2017 as a cost-cutting measure. The cuts were imposed under former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and hiring was restored by his successor, Mike Pompeo.
Story continuesAnother department bureau that deals with the government's most sensitive secrets"reported that extended vacancies in its information security positions placed at risk highly classified information," the inspector general said.It said one bureau reported that the freeze"prevented it from conducting a robust rollout of a priority Administration security initiative related to East Asia.
"It was to start a process of having people in the State Department really think about their piece of the organization and the human resources they had and when positions became open cause themselves to ask: 'Do I really need that? Is that the highest priority? How would I do it differently?" he said.
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