Informed Hiring has been Frozen

Aiming to provide more information, using a throwaway and obfuscating details for obvious reasons.

I accepted a position in a different region in November, same tour of duty and position description, but it's closer to family and in a new fuel type. My lease was up, so I moved across several states to the new town and got myself into a year and a half lease with a planned start date in March. Before moving, I had received an official confirmation letter stating the personnel action changing duty stations was complete.

After the first flurry of EOs, I called HR asking about the status of my position. They said they had no guidance, and they explicitly said they could not tell me if I had a job or not.

Earlier this week, my future superintendent calls and informs me all hiring in the region has been frozen. He stated there is a nonzero chance my position gets cancelled, although I would still technically have my previous job. This tracks with what I have heard going on in the previous region as well.

I understand that a similar freeze happened in 2017, and I still feel as if we will receive a public safety exemption. However, the uncertainty me and my family is being put through after sacrificing countless summers, after exposing myself to carcinogens that will almost certainly kill me earlier, and after serving the country in a nonpartisan manner is disheartening and it makes me ashamed of this country. We are also completely out of the normal bounds of discourse - past actions are not indicative of future results.

I am a public servant, and I will serve no matter what, because I am a brain dead moron. However, we cannot run emergency services in this country purely on the goodwill of the other idiots like me, and this administration will run the land management agencies into the ground - far worse than anything we have ever seen before - if they cannot decide to actually lead and provide clarity.