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‘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 ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...
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OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
The Trump administration has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to provide a list of all probationary employees to the Office of Personnel Management, adding a disclaimer that OPM is ...
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US agency that pushed for mass firings quietly clarifies it doesn't have the power to fire workers
The Office of Personnel Management quietly revised a memo on Tuesday about the firing of probationary federal employees. The memo includes two new sentences indicating that individual agencies ...
THE WEEK13d
Judge tells White House to stop ordering mass firings
He said he did not buy the government's argument that OPM merely requested the mass firings, often carried out via form letters citing nonexistent bad performance reviews. Several agency heads had ...
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OPM guidance strips language saying response to emails is ‘explicitly voluntary’
OPM prepared a privacy impact assessment after it was sued for its creation of a database of federal employees using the [email protected] email. Now gone is language indicating employees have no ...
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OPM says it can now process pensions digitally, as DOGE targets bizarre federal document mine
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In a video promoted by the White House DOGE office, the Office of Personnel Management said it can now process pensions entirely digitally ...