OPM to review potential risks from DOGE’s access to sensitive federal systems
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly sounded the alarm on cybersecurity vulnerabilities raised by DOGE personnel slashing the ...
‘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 ...
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OPM chief rejects court order to testify on probationary firings as case expands governmentwide
Some Republicans push bills to protect workers as thousands of fired feds will rejoin the payroll this week, albeit on ...
How Trump and Musk have sought greater control over federal employees
President Donald Trump has spent the first two months of his administration dramatically overhauling the federal workforce, ...
Trump deadline for new wave of federal layoffs is Thursday. What we know about the plans.
Federal agencies have until Thursday, March 13 to submit plans to the Trump administration for large-scale layoffs, called a ...
OPM walks back memo on firing probationary employees, leaving decision to agencies
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Tuesday updated its guidance to department heads that demanded the firing of ...
Federal hiring is nearly frozen. For those who can hire, a new roadblock has emerged
Some federal agencies, like the Department of Veterans Affairs, are largely exempt from President Trump's hiring freeze. But ...
OPM says it can now process pensions digitally, as DOGE targets bizarre federal document mine
The Office of Personnel Management said it can process pensions entirely digitally, in two days, in a video promoted by Elon ...
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Trump administration’s OPM eyeing career human capital leaders in new guidance
OPM recommended all agencies redesignate their CHCOs as "general" rather than "career reserved," opening the positions to political appointees.