The U.S. Department of Justice will lift the hiring freeze that has been in place for more than three years, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said today.
Holder said the recent budget agreement, which added funding for key department initiatives, provided some relief from sharp budget cuts that strained the department. The Justice Department, which lost 4,000 employees in recent years, took “extraordinary measures just to make ends meet,” Holder said in a statement today.
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