Showing posts with label Office of Personnel Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Office of Personnel Management. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2025

What federal workers can learn from Twitter's 'Fork in the Road' : NPR

The "Fork in the Road" email sent to federal employees has raised numerous legal questions and concerns, including whether OPM has the authority to give paid leave to other agency employees and whether the government has the money to follow through, given that Congress has funded it only through March 14...

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286477/fork-in-the-road-twitter-federal-workers 



Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Mystery OPM server that aided buyout offers prompts House Democrat probe

[With a DOGE server connected] OPM may have violated laws dictating how the agency must plan for using databases with personally identifiable information. 

"At best, the Trump Administration's actions at OPM to date demonstrate gross negligence, severe incompetence, and a chaotic disregard for the security of our government data and the countless services it enables our agencies to provide to the public," said the letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.), the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's top Democrat, and Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio.). 

"At worst, we fear that Trump Administration officials know full well that their actions threaten to break our government and put our citizens at risk of foreign adversaries like China and Russia gaining access to our sensitive data."…

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Why Is Donald Trump Hellbent on Dismantling OPM? - Mother Jones

Last year the Trump administration unveiled its plan to reorganize government. I think every president puts together a plan like this, and it was the usual collection of good ideas, bad ideas, and fantasies that would never get through Congress. One of the proposals was to reorganize the Office of Personnel Management. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/why-is-donald-trump-hellbent-on-dismantling-opm/

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Trump wants to blow up this federal agency. Democrats want more information - The Washington Post

Virginia Dale Cabaniss is poised to take over an agency President Trump wants to blow up. Trump’s plan to dismember the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) would send parts of it to the Defense Department, the General Services Administration and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-wants-to-blow-up-this-federal-agency-democrats-want-more-information/2019/05/07/8c9592ee-7114-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Trump ending part of Affordable Care Act, which happens to be the one Republican 'replace' idea - Daily Kos

One part of the Affordable Care Act that never really took off is now going to be dropped by the Trump administration. Multi-state insurance plans allowed under the law are not going to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management anymore. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/29/1854113/-Trump-ending-part-of-Affordable-Care-Act-which-happens-to-be-the-one-Republican-replace-idea

Monday, April 15, 2019

This major agency may soon be blown up — and kickstart a Trump promise - The Washington Post

The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/if-trump-has-his-way-this-major-federal-agency-is-on-the-way-out/2019/04/09/935e2dfe-54c0-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html

Thursday, April 11, 2019

If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out - The Washington Post

The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/if-trump-has-his-way-this-major-federal-agency-is-on-the-way-out/2019/04/09/935e2dfe-54c0-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html







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