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Federal Agencies Directed To Draft ‘Workforce Reduction’ Plans Under Trump’s DOGE Initiative
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a memorandum Wednesday to federal agency heads, outlining steps to implement President Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative.
Veterans Affairs staffers denounce OPM email amid Elon Musk's DOGE push: 'People have no clue how this is impacting us'
After Elon Musk demanded that federal workers detail their work accomplishments via email, VA employees who contacted BI strongly opposed the effort.
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This Lawyer Thinks He’s Found a Way to Make DOGE Pay Feds for Accessing Their Information
Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley says Elon Musk's project violated the Privacy Act when it got into OPM's data.
DOGE's Elon Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign; some agencies push back
Here are the agencies that followed Musk's DOGE productivity email verdict – and the ones that didn't
Chair Elon Musk asked federal staffers to respond to a personal productivity email or get fired – not all federal agencies complied.
How DOGE's email to federal employees was ripped from private sector playbook
More than 1 million federal workers have responded to DOGE's 'what did you do' productivity email, White House says
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than one million federal workers sent in their list of accomplishments.
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Judge temporarily blocks DOGE access to OPM and the Education Department
US judge blocks Musk's DOGE team from accessing Education Department, OPM data
Judge blocks Department of Education, OPM from disclosing troves of sensitive personal data to DOGE
DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.
DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had some harsh words for the way DOGE was operating, calling the email sent to federal workers “intimidation,” and saying that she’s hearing from federal workers who are being “treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.”
Federal agency tells staff responses to Musk's DOGE productivity email may be read by 'malign foreign actors'
HHS warned employees that if they respond to Elon Musk's request to list five things they accomplished last week to assume it would be read by malign foreign actors.