The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management is now ground zero for President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state.

The Defense Department initially told employees to "pause any response" to OPM's request for a list of their work ...

Departments with sensitive or confidential tasks, such as the FBI or Pentagon, initially told employees to ignore the order from DOGE and OPM.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing the civilian workforce at the Pentagon to respond to the Office of Personnel ...

In a video posted to X by the DoD, Hegseth specified that only civilian workers should reply to the email and CC their ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Sunday he is now directing all department civilian employees to respond to emails ...

The latest action on official time from the Trump administration aligns with other efforts to overhaul the federal workforce and limit federal unions' roles.

Federal employees on Friday began receiving a second email asking them to list bullet points on what they did during the past ...

OPM has already made its moves to fire probationary employees, commanding them to leave the office by 3 p.m. Thursday. OPM has also closed its communications office and placed all those employees ...

Two employee termination letters, copies of which were seen by BI, were from Charles Ezell, OPM's acting director. A probationary employee at a federal agency has either worked in a career ...

But "the probationary period is a continuation of the job application process, not an entitlement for permanent employment," an OPM spokesman told Scripps News. "Agencies are taking independent action ...