Daniel Driscoll: “We've put into place a hiring freeze that is still in place…”

“We've been looking at the employees that we have. We have over 250,000 civilians. And what we wanted to do is optimize the types of jobs that they were doing. And so We've put into place a hiring freeze that is still in place today. And we've basically been able to save the taxpayer $2 billion a year by trying to be thoughtful and good for fiduciaries of the taxpayer dollars.” (12:58–13:02)

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