As Upton, DeGette ask OMB to exempt FDA user fee slots from hiring freeze

OMB Says It Is Reviewing HHS Hiring Freeze Exemption Requests

February 7, 2017 at 7:14 PM
The White House Office of Management and Budget received a request detailing which jobs HHS wants exempted from President Donald Trump's federal hiring freeze, an OMB spokesperson told Inside Health Policy Tuesday (Feb. 7), but details on which, if any, FDA jobs were requested for exemption remain unclear. The House sponsors of the 21st Century Cures legislation sent a letter to OMB Acting Director Mark Sandy Tuesday warning the hiring freeze could hamper FDA efforts to implement the new Cures...

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