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 employees by March 13.

All agencies under the executive branch now have until April 14 to propose new locations for their respective offices and bureaus, as part of a Wednesday memo from the directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

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 slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state.

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

The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency wants to charge at least one federal agency millions of dollars for its work.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said no law gave the Office of Personnel Management the authority to direct other federal agencies to fire thousands of workers.

Millions of federal workers were ordered to return to offices across the country in recent weeks, marking an end to Covid-era rules allowing more flexibility to work from home. Many have come back to workplaces that weren’t ready for them.

OPM employees working remotely can decline the management-directed reassignment, but with the understanding their choice will result in termination proceedings.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Tuesday updated its guidance to department heads that demanded the firing of federal workers, adding that it’s up to the agency on whether to boot

The Trump administration told federal agencies that firings of probationary workers are up to the agencies ‒ not the Office of Personnel Management.

Rep. Gerry Connolly, the ranking member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, said the CIOs should remain career-reserve SES positions.

All agencies under the executive branch now have until April 14 to propose new locations for their respective offices and bureaus, as part of a Wednesday memo from the directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM).