‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government
The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ...
OPM instructs agencies to turn over plans for mass government layoffs
A Wednesday memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directs agencies ...
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OPM seeks RIF, gives remote employees option to relocate to new duty station
OPM employees working remotely can decline the management-directed reassignment, but with the understanding their choice will result in termination proceedings.
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Trump demands plans for large-scale layoffs of more federal workers
The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered all federal departments and agencies to submit reorganization plans outlining ...
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OPM memo claims some agency telework policies are ‘unlawful’
Agency leaders’ return-to-office plans, meanwhile, are due to OPM and the Office of Management and Budget by Friday. Russell Vought, the nominee to lead OMB, foreshadowed the Trump administration’s ...
OPM guidance strips language saying response to emails is ‘explicitly voluntary’
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) quietly updated a privacy impact assessment on its efforts to email all federal workers, stripping language indicating that responses from the staffers ...
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Federal agencies told to submit "reorganization plans," prepare for mass firings
In the memo, the heads of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management asked agencies to submit these plans by March 13 and to prepare for "reductions in force." ...
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Some agencies begin purges of recent hires even as OPM directs federal offices to pump the brakes
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices on Tuesday to all staff still in their probationary periods, an Office of Management and Budget spokesperson confirmed ...
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Reduction In Force Directions Raise Questions Of How National Park Service Will Respond
Directions from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management on how federal agencies should craft ...
Here’s Where Trump’s Government Layoffs Are Targeted—As Judge Blocks Mass Firings Of Probationary Employees
Internal Revenue Service: More than 110 IRS offices that handle taxpayer assistance will be closed, according to a plan from the U.S. General Services Administration obtained by The Washington Post, ...
This Obscure Office Is at the Center of Elon Musk’s Efforts to Harness Federal Data
An obscure government office is at the center of Elon Musk's efforts to target federal data and advance Trump's agenda ...
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One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and ...