Trump Issues Executive Orders Freezing Federal Hiring, Targeting Trade
BREAKING Politics Jan 23 2017, 1:52 pm ET
Trump Issues Executive Orders Freezing Federal Hiring, Targeting Trade
by Carrie Dann
President Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions Monday focused on trade and the federal workforce, making good on a pair of his core campaign promises.
The actions, signed Monday at the White House, implement a federal employee hiring freeze, formally withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and reinstate a GOP-backed policy regarding foreign aid and abortion funding.
Trump noted that his long-promised action to shrink the federal government would not apply to the American military.
READ MORE: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-hous...
Trump Issues Executive Orders Freezing Federal Hiring, Targeting Trade
by Carrie Dann
President Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions Monday focused on trade and the federal workforce, making good on a pair of his core campaign promises.
The actions, signed Monday at the White House, implement a federal employee hiring freeze, formally withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and reinstate a GOP-backed policy regarding foreign aid and abortion funding.
Trump noted that his long-promised action to shrink the federal government would not apply to the American military.
READ MORE: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-hous...
