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.
Federal workers laid off by DOGE sound off
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday that he believes he will be able to salvage his relationship with the United States after President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated him in the Oval Office last week.
DOGE says that they're saving $1.5 million a year on terminating a lease in downtown Columbus. But that office was already planning to move.
Using AI to identify “mission-critical” jobs? Spotting dead people on the Social Security rolls? There’s an urgent role for automation and AI in government -- but the what DOGE appears to be doing doesn’t add up.
Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has slashed the federal workforce, making cuts across agencies and departments.
The Defense Department initially told employees to "pause any response" to OPM's request for a list of their work accomplishments.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told civilian employees to comply with a request to provide five bullet points of accomplishments.
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.
Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.
Through a series of decisions, the Republican Justices set the stage for much of the chaos of the Trump Administration
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