The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.
The Trump administration is offering buyouts to federal workers. Read the memo the Office of Personnel Management posted for employees.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.
The Trump administration released guidance on the classification formerly known as Schedule F, calling for redetermination of policy-influencing positions.
In an unprecedented move to shrink the US government workforce, President Donald Trump has offered seven-month payouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their posts voluntarily by February 6.
In a statement, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that the freeze would have devastating implications for the “most vulnerable people in our country,” and described the Trump administration’s forceful disregard of Congress’s powers as a “dangerous move towards authoritarianism.”
Over the weekend, Trump signed an executive order in response to the wildfires affecting Los Angeles County directing federal officials to “immediately take actions to override existing activities that unduly burden efforts to maximize water deliveries” in an effort to fix California’s “disastrous” water policies.
Until very recently, the Office of Personnel Management lacked the capability to send mass emails to all federal employees, a person familiar said, fueling concerns that the agency bypassed procurement rules.
Trump administration offers buyouts to federal employees to downsize government, sparking concerns over workforce disruptions and loyalty pressures.
A memo asked agencies to provide a justification for providing relocation benefits to employees who live more than 50 miles from worksites.
A lawsuit brought by two federal employees alleges that the Trump administration has set up an email distribution system for the entire federal workforce that raises security concerns for workers’ private data.
The Office of Personnel Management is looking to open a direct line of communication to the federal workforce.