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The United States Merit Systems Protection Board is an independent U.S. federal government agency whose function is to protect career civil service employees from arbitrary firings. In February 2025, Trump removed a Democratic member of the board, Cathy Harris, who had served three years of her term, and demoted the other Democratic member. [102]
The 2025 United States federal hiring freeze is a policy instituted by a presidential memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, on the first day of his second administration immediately instituting a hiring freeze on federal employees. [1]
The amount of reduced federal revenues are significant, estimated by CBO at nearly 8% GDP or about $1.5 trillion in 2017, for scale roughly half the revenue collected by the government and nearly three times as large as the budget deficit.
For 2025, the Social Security wage base — the cap on earnings subject to Social Security tax — will rise to $176,100, meaning only income up to that amount is taxed for Social Security.
In 2025, the maximum earned income tax credit for low- to moderate-income families with three or more children rises to $8,046, a slight increase from this year. This credit helps support working ...
Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was an executive order of the Article II branch of the United States federal government, in place from 1965 to 2025, specifying non-discriminatory practices and affirmative action in federal government hiring and employment.
Image source: Getty Images. 1. Cost increases for Parts A and B. Original Medicare's premiums and deductibles went up in 2025. The Part A annual deductible increased from $1,632 to $1,676, and the ...
The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, passed in June 2023, resolved that year's debt-ceiling crisis and set spending caps for FY2024 and FY2025. The act called for $895 billion in defense spending and $711 billion in non-defense discretionary spending for fiscal year 2025, representing a 1% increase over fiscal year 2024.