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OPM skirted agency norms in assessing the privacy of its new email system
Anonymous federal employees filed a lawsuit alleging that the new email system could be placing their sensitive personal ...
US Homeland Security says election security personnel placed on leave
The Department of Homeland Security, as part of an evaluation of its election security mission, said on Tuesday that ...
US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave
ATLANTA (AP) — Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been ...
Trump fires top US ethics official and head of agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers
President Donald Trump has fired the federal government’s top ethics official as well as the leader of the agency dedicated ...
The CFO of the Office of Personnel Management, the chief HR agency for the federal government, resigns
Erica Roach, the chief financial officer of the US Office of Personnel Management, resigned this week amid swift changes to ...
Musk’s DOGE agents access sensitive personnel data, alarming security officials
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has accessed highly restricted data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management, including ...
US judge allows Trump to proceed with government employee buyout
A federal judge on Wednesday allowed Donald Trump's administration to carry out its federal worker buyout program as the ...
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OPM continues to tweak 'deferred resignation' provisions as unions press court challenge
As the parties await a written decision from a federal judge in Massachusetts, unions fighting the controversial ‘Fork in the ...
Some DOGE agents removed from sensitive personnel systems after security fears
The changes come after a Post article detailing the sweeping controls granted to deputies of billionaire Elon Musk.
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OPM asks agencies to identify career positions, low-performing employees
In a Thursday memo, OPM gave agencies until March 7 to send a report detailing employee performance metrics that specifically ...
Office of Personnel Management CFO, who manages more than $1 trillion in funds, pushed out of role
The Office of Personnel Management’s chief financial officer, who manages more than $1 trillion in funds, was pushed out this ...
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I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
As an OPM employee, I want my fellow federal workers ... it clear that he dislikes many government agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development, which was critical in ...