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 ...
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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 tells agencies it’s not directing probationary firings
The National Science Foundation on Monday cited the federal courts and updated OPM guidance in its announcement that it planned to reinstate fired probationers — despite the science agency ultimately ...
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‘Good luck with that.’ Trump administration terminates privacy officials at agency overseeing government hiring and firing
CNN was first notified of the firings at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in response to a freedom of information act request for records related to the security clearances of Musk and ...
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OPM procurement processing fully halted following agency layoffs, internal email says
The Office of Personnel Management’s procurement unit said it’s no longer able to process contracting opportunities and that all related operations have been halted after a “complete ...
U.S. Education Department says it is cutting nearly half of all staff
According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.
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Elon Musk’s ‘what you accomplished’ emails are ‘voluntary’ after key agency heads ignore them: Federal personnel office
figure’s announcement that failure to do so would amount to resignation, The Post has learned. Officials at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) notified human resource bosses across ...
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U.S. Education Department switches to remote work amid talk of layoffs
The announcement further unsettled Education Department employees, who have spent the past several weeks anticipating ...
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OPM distances itself from probationary worker firings, retroactively edits memo to federal agencies
Updated: March 4 at 3:07 p.m. ET The Office of Personnel Management has retroactively edited a Jan. 20 memo to federal agencies, in which the office instructed agencies to send lists of ...
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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 across government to turn over plans for widespread layoffs of federal ...
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OPM inspector general will examine DOGE access to IT systems
An Office of Personnel Management watchdog investigation into cybersecurity risks on government networks and the potential exposure of sensitive information will include an examination of DOGE access ...