President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources departent.

The White House is giving federal employees until Feb. 6 to accept the offer, President Trump’s latest move to drastically cut the government’s workforce.

Agencies are starting to take action against DEI-tasked employees and pass lists of those workers on to OPM and the White House.

Unions fear federal staff purge and RTO will spark chaos for Americans More than two million US federal civilian employees have been invited to resign as of September 30, 2025, with incentives promised for those who agree to quit by February 6,

Andrew Kloster, chief lawyer in the government's HR office, has a history of making sexist and racist comments

A memo from the White House's Office of Personnel Management criticized "virtually unrestricted" telework and laid out next steps for agency heads.

Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions about its legality.

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A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails to federal employees and store information from responses.

Employees have until Feb. 6 to decide whether to take the buyouts offered by OPM or return to the office — in most cases, five days a week.

Amanda Scales, a former employee of Elon Musk’s AI company, was recently tapped to be the chief of staff at OPM.