A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees
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The General Services Administration is hiring “approximately 400 positions,” according to an internal email viewed by WIRED. Last year the agency lost thousands of workers as part of DOGE’s rampage.
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Leah Feiger Zoë Schiffer Politics Apr 3, 2026 7:05 AM A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees The General Services Administration is hiring “approximately 400 positions,” according to an internal email viewed by WIRED. Last year the agency lost thousands of workers as part of DOGE’s rampage. Photograph: Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Save this story Save this story A year after Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency effectively fired thousands of government employees , one federal agency that was affected by those cuts is now preparing to hire hundreds of people. The General Services Administration , an agency that oversees the government’s IT department and real estate holdings, is hiring “approximately 400 positions” across its Public Building Service division, according to an email obtained by WIRED. “We’re thrilled to announce that the GSA Strategic Hiring Committee has approved the PBS staffing plan designed to address our workforce needs and strengthen our teams,” states an email sent by PBS chief of staff Donna Dix to employees on Monday. The email goes on to say that the hiring effort will focus on “the most significant areas of need: facilities management, acquisition, and project management.” GSA did not respond to a request for comment. PBS, which manages the federal buildings under GSA’s banner, lost hundreds of employees in March 2025 following DOGE cuts. The agency, WIRED reported at the time, was also instructed to sell off more than 500 government buildings, some of which housed government agencies and the offices of US senators. One of the properties on the list was a sensitive complex housing a CIA facility in Northern Virginia. Since then, the agency has walked back the extent of these plans, and instead doubled down on assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement expand across the US. WIRED reported in February that GSA and PBS were assisting ICE’s plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a...
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