"The Biden administration is trying to tackle the Bureau of Land Management’s chronic staffing shortage.
President Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget request unveiled yesterday asks Congress to allocate funding to hire as many as 760 new employees to the bureau.
That follows Biden’s request last year for the fiscal 2022 budget cycle to hire 649 new employees, referred to in the budget request as “full-time equivalents.” It’s not clear how many of the 649 employees have been hired; there is no mention of the hiring request number in the omnibus spending bill Congress approved, and Biden signed into law this month, that funds the federal government through September.
BLM representatives did not respond to a request for comment and information.
But BLM Deputy Director of Operations Mike Nedd told staffers in February that the fiscal 2022 budget had funding in it for at least 600 new hires, in addition to vacancies within the headquarters office."
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