The state of Idaho has hundreds of positions that are “chronically vacant,” according to a new report from the Legislative Services Office (LSO), and the Legislature's DOGE Task Force is weighing how it can eliminate jobs it deems "unnecessary."

Keith Bybee, Budget and Policy Division manager for LSO, presented the report on vacancies to the task force Monday. It showed that 439 positions across state government have been vacant since before Jan. 1, a length of time that Bybee classified as "chronically vacant."

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