Federal hiring freeze expected to put Native services in peril

Finding and retaining qualified doctors, nurses, teachers and cops to serve in Native American communities is hard enough.

A federal hiring freeze will make the situation worse and is breaking the federal government’s trust responsibility to tribes, a group of Democratic senators said in a letter this week to President Donald J. Trump.

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