21. Department of Commerce · Minor
Use Trump-era direct hire authorities at EDA
Printed page 683 21. Department of Commerce
“Leveraging of the direct hire authorities established in the Trump Administration for special initiatives or disaster/recovery funding.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. No use of direct hire authority at EDA is recorded in the window: OPM published no direct-hire authority notice covering EDA positions, and EDA's own documents do not mention one.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search: Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "direct hire" and "direct-hire authority" restricted to the Personnel Management Office and Commerce Department agency slugs; a
jq pass over the 22 in-window EDA Federal Register records; and opm.gov fetched with a browser
User-Agent (which returns 200 where a bare curl 403s, per source-apis.md) for its direct-hire
authority listings.
Direct-hire authorities are granted by OPM in writing and are published; none covering EDA appears in the window. The Government-wide direction of travel was the opposite — the hiring freeze of 2025-01-20 and the Workforce Optimization initiative — which is leveled in Chapter 3.
- Action
- other
- Object
- EDA direct hire authorities
- ID
- 1899