The federal government is scrambling to hire as many “woke” bureaucrats as possible before President Donald Trump is sworn into power next month.
The Biden administration is currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Those employees would be embedded into the permanent federal workforce headed by the Trump administration.
The news hires were revealed by the Daily Wire following an analysis of federal job opportunities.
The jobs have annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could add up to total salary payouts of $160 million a year.
Thirty-three DEI jobs were posted in the 10 days immediately following Trump’s historic election victory.
The hiring window closes before Trump takes office.
The jobs are all advertised on USAJobs.gov, the official application portal for would-be federal employees.
They were listed with a status of “applications under review” or “accepting applications” when The Daily Wire obtained the jobs data late last month.
The bureaucracy is scrambling to fill even high-level jobs, just underneath the ranks of “political appointees.”
The move comes before the Trump administration takes over with plans to gut federal bureaucracy.
Trump is vowing to restructure federal agencies and slash bureaucracy as part of a new entity led by billionaire Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Last month, Trump designated the enterprise the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Trump said DOGE will “provide advice and guidance” from outside the executive branch and work closely with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to propose cuts.
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies—essential to the ‘Save America’ movement,” Trump said of Musk and Ramaswamy’s plans.
Musk, who served as a top Trump surrogate and donated tens of millions of dollars in support of his candidacy, originally floated the idea.
The owner of X, Tesla, SpaceX, and several other businesses, is famed for his hyper-efficient workforces.
“This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people,” Musk said.
As a presidential candidate in 2023, Ramaswamy proposed “large-scale, mass layoffs” that would eventually lead to eliminating 75% of the federal workforce.
Such a move would provide a huge relief to taxpayers while helping to reduce the government.
Ramaswamy has called Trump’s controversial Schedule F proposal to unwind the merit-based civil service for an untold number of federal jobs “incremental reform,” whereas he was proposing “a revolution.”
“These rules are designed to protect those employees from individual politicized retribution,” Ramaswamy said last year.
“Like it or not, that is what the civil service rules say.
“But they do not apply to reductions in force—large-scale, mass layoffs—and large-scale, mass layoffs are absolutely what we will bring to the D.C. bureaucracy.”
Trump said Republicans have long dreamed of accomplishing his new commission’s goals.
He said it could be the “Manhattan Project of our time.”
Trump promised their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, in time for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans,” Trump said.
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