At the same time, OPM’s Tech Force initiative aims to hire about 1,000 federal employees for temporary two-year positions, largely targeted toward early-career talent. In addition to Tech Force, OPM’s latest memo on staffing told agencies to recruit early-career talent through other pipelines as well, such as the CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service program. More broadly, the Trump administration’s recent hiring efforts diverge from its earlier push to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have left their jobs since President Donald Trump took office. As a result of those separations, coupled with limited hiring, the federal workforce has seen a net decrease of about 271,600 employees since early 2025.