The federal government puts out a ‘help wanted’ notice as Biden seeks to undo Trump cuts

The formal budget the White House is expected to release this month would bulk up much of what has been lost. The Environmental Protection Agency, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Social Security, State, Commerce, Education, Interior and the Small Business Administration would grow following the Trump years and a decade of mandatory budget caps, which “wore away their capacity to carry out core functions” from protecting public health and the environment to processing disability claims, according to the preliminary plan, known as the “skinny budget.”