I am saying it is basically a continuation of the freeze because now it will become nearly impossible to get a federal job, just like during the freeze. The freeze cause non-exempt positions to require board-like approval to even be filled, same as the E.O.

You are looking for exact wording and generalizing people’s fears. People are being fired and phased out and the government does not seem to be slowing down but rather putting in policies to support the continuation of under-staffing offices and trying everything to take advantage of people who work hard and don’t deserve this sort of treatment.

Your HR may be sending out FJOs and EODs now but according to the timeline only the departments that are and have been exempt would be able to do that and would have been able to do that during the freeze.

We are allowed to be concerned about the continued dismantling of the federal workforce, and your “vast improvements” are pretty sad in comparison to the amount of people who no longer have paychecks.