BREAKING: President Trump Orders Hiring Freeze on IRS

As part of his Day One agenda, President Trump used his clemency powers to place a hiring freeze on the IRS, preventing them from taking on any new employees, at least temporarily.

Along with the hiring freeze, President Trump signed an Executive Order requiring all federal workers working remotely to return to in-office work.

Take a look:

"WE WILL PAUSE THE HIRING OF ANY NEW IRS AGENTS AND REQUIRE THAT FEDERAL WORKERS MUST RETURN TO WORK IN PERSON.” – President @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ooPRhxCKB8

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) January 20, 2025

BREAKING: President Trump has said he is halting the hiring of new IRS agents.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 20, 2025

President Trump announces a freeze on hiring new IRS agents.

Amen to that. pic.twitter.com/OFCm0sYtgS

— TFTC (@TFTC21) January 21, 2025

The reason for this move is most likely due to budgeting constrains and wasteful government spending concerns.

Along with the IRS hiring freeze, President Trump halted all federal government hiring in order to ensure that only the best and brightest are brought on moving forward.

From Barron’s:

Trump signed a bevy of orders related to cutting government spending during his speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Among those, according to Trump, is an action ordering federal workers to return to office. He also signed an order that freezes government hiring “to ensure we’re only hiring competent people,” as well as a freeze on hiring new Internal Revenue Service agents. He also suggested that recently hired IRS agents could be repurposed to other roles.

Trump and his allies have made big promises about cutting federal spending by trillions of dollars. Unions representing federal workers say that some of the assertions are overblown, saying that most federal workers already work from the office and disputing the new administration’s ability to unilaterally cut workers without Congressional approval.

Bloomberg Tax added more details:

The Trump administration’s new hiring freeze across the federal workforce will stay in effect for the IRS even after the order expires for all other agencies.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday freezing hiring across the government. Positions that were vacant as of Monday can’t be filled and no new positions can be created.

This memorandum will remain in effect for the IRS until the secretary of the Treasury Department with the director of the Office of Management and Budget and the administrator of the new United States DOGE Service determines that it is in the “national interest to lift the freeze.”

All the same, the news is adding fuel to the rumors that President Trump may intend to shut the IRS down completely …

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP HALTS HIRING OF NEW IRS AGENTS

IS HE SHUTTING IT DOWN? pic.twitter.com/QtKKBnu6ha

— Bark (@barkmeta) January 21, 2025

Trump announced a hiring freeze for the IRS. Wonder what this is leading up to? pic.twitter.com/9ssotftxvR

— CAMELCAST OFFICIAL (@CAMELCASTOff) January 21, 2025

Abolish the IRS entirely

— Deus Vult (@HRNelson13) January 21, 2025

It might be a good idea to wait on your tax return and see what transpired between here and Spring…

I wouldn’t be in a hurry to file & pay taxes early for 2024, who knows what changes might transpire.

— IncognitoINFJ (@InfjIncognito) January 20, 2025