5 days ago · President Donald Trump's administration says federal agencies should begin planning to eliminate employee positions. The process is known as a reduction in force. ... OPM later said that the edict was voluntary, although workers could face similar requests in the future.

5 days ago · President Donald Trump hosts his first cabinet meeting with Elon Musk in attendance as he sits next to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Washington, DC, on February 26. ... OMB and OPM also want ...

13 hours ago · 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 ...

Feb 24, 2025 · A rift appeared to open Sunday between some of President Donald Trump’s agency heads and Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with reforming the federal government, over Musk’s demand that all ...

Jan 29, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new tool for reshaping the federal government is a relatively obscure agency, the Office of Personnel Management. The agency has offered millions of federal workers eight months of salary if they voluntarily choose to leave their jobs by Feb. 6.

4 days ago · The Office of Personnel Management cannot order agencies to cut staff, the judge ruled. ... See more on: U.S. Politics, William Haskell Alsup, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, American Federation of ...

Jan 31, 2025 · During an internal meeting Friday morning, Trump administration officials directed OPM senior career staff to begin making plans to cut the agency’s workforce and programs by 70%. Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting confirmed the details of the meeting to Federal News Network.

6 days ago · The update from the Office of Personnel Management came after Trump-appointed officials at some agencies — including the F.B.I. — told employees not to respond.

3 days ago · The Trump administration has just argued that agencies were not ordered to fire probationary employees and that a federal personnel agency had merely made a request to agencies that they ...

Dec 23, 2024 · President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate a new leader for the Office of Personnel Management. On Sunday evening, Trump’s team shared in a press email that Scott Kupor, currently a managing partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is the planned pick for OPM director in Trump’s second term.