Wanted: Feds ‘committed to improving efficiency’

By Robin Bravender | 08/01/2025 04:22 PM EDT

The Trump administration is adding new language to federal job listings.

Scott Kupor before a microphone.

Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 3 in Washington. Mark Schiefelbein/AP

The National Park Service is seeking a fire protection engineer to work in its Philadelphia office.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens, willing to work overtime and should be “passionate about the ideals of our American republic,” the job listing says.

The Trump administration has added new language about federal efficiency and American ideals to every job opening posted on the federal hiring website USAJOBS, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday. It’s part of the administration’s broader “merit hiring plan” that the administration says will streamline and improve the federal hiring process.

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One key element of Trump’s hiring overhaul is to ensure that “only the most talented, capable and patriotic Americans are hired to the Federal service,” according to an OPM memo issued to agency leaders in May.

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