The executive order directs agency heads, after the hiring freeze expires, to recruit no more than one employee for every four who leave the federal government,

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Feb. 10, encouraging the U.S. government and public to go back to using plastic straws following the Biden Administration’s push to phase out the single-use plastics.

The executive order expected to come next week is an extension of a yearslong cultural war over paper and plastic straws.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would continue downsizing the federal workforce WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk , his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce.

President Trump said he will sign an executive order next week ending past efforts from Biden for the federal government to embrace paper straws.

Calling it "ridiculous," President Donald Trump said he would undo a Biden effort to phase out plastic straws across the federal government.

President Trump vowed to sign an executive order ending a Biden-era effort to phase out single-use plastics — including straws — across the government by 2027.

President Donald Trump signaled his intention to sign an executive order to end restrictions on plastic straws currently in place in several blue states.