Federal hiring freeze imposed on civilian agencies, beginning workforce contraction aligned with Project 2025's plan to shrink the administrative state by attrition.

Federal employees ordered back to in-person work, terminating remote arrangements - accelerating attrition alongside hiring freezes and deferred-resignation pressure.

Schedule Policy/Career excepted-service implementation keeps converting career protections into political loyalty screens across the administrative state.

Eliminate-fraud task-force orders concentrate investigatory narrative power in the executive while inspectors general and GAO capacity remain contested.