Biden to Speed Hiring of Workers to Funnel Infrastructure Money

Federal agencies will be able to employ temporary staff and speed hiring as the government hastens to carry out the $1 trillion infrastructure law, President Joe Biden’s administration said Tuesday.

The Office of Personnel Management is authorizing agencies to fill temporary positions for as long as two years for jobs specifically aimed at supporting the new law (Public Law 117-58), OPM Director Kiran Ahuja said in a memo to department heads and agencies.

Agencies have said they need hundreds of grant personnel, budget analysts, and managers to facilitate the spending and deployment of the law, and it has ...