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If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out
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If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out
By Lisa Rein and Damian Paletta
April 10 at 6:55 AM
The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. ... If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government.
The agency would be pulled apart and its functions divided among three other departments. An executive order directing parts of the transition by the fall is in the final stages of review, administration officials said, with an announcement by President Trump likely by summer. OPM employees were briefed at a meeting in March.
For Trump, the breakup of the 5,565-employee federal personnel agency would offer a jolt of bureaucratic defibrillation to a slow-to-change workforce that the president and his top aides have targeted as a symptom of a sluggish, inefficient government.
The experiment will be closely watched not just on Capitol Hill, but also by other agencies that could be next.
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Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Trump adminstration. At The Washington Post, she has written about the federal workforce; state politics and government in Annapolis, and in Richmond; local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods. Follow https://twitter.com/Reinlwapo
Damian Paletta is White House economic policy reporter for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, he covered the White House for the Wall Street Journal. Follow https://twitter.com/damianpaletta
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out
By Lisa Rein and Damian Paletta
April 10 at 6:55 AM
The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. ... If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government.
The agency would be pulled apart and its functions divided among three other departments. An executive order directing parts of the transition by the fall is in the final stages of review, administration officials said, with an announcement by President Trump likely by summer. OPM employees were briefed at a meeting in March.
For Trump, the breakup of the 5,565-employee federal personnel agency would offer a jolt of bureaucratic defibrillation to a slow-to-change workforce that the president and his top aides have targeted as a symptom of a sluggish, inefficient government.
The experiment will be closely watched not just on Capitol Hill, but also by other agencies that could be next.
....
Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Trump adminstration. At The Washington Post, she has written about the federal workforce; state politics and government in Annapolis, and in Richmond; local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods. Follow https://twitter.com/Reinlwapo
Damian Paletta is White House economic policy reporter for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, he covered the White House for the Wall Street Journal. Follow https://twitter.com/damianpaletta
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If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2019
OP
We are just over half way through his term & the damage already done is stunning
CrispyQ
Apr 2019
#3
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. conservative smaller gov't really means soviet style centralized gov't
easier to manage the corruption to your own team's benefit.
MBS
(9,688 posts)7. Oh, you are exactly right.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)2. is this a test run to eliminate other agencies?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. yes. n/t
CrispyQ
(36,469 posts)3. We are just over half way through his term & the damage already done is stunning
& will take decades to fix.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. Ain't going to happen.
The back firing has begun. Republicans have truly stepped in some really bad smelling doo doo.
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)6. Not that they haven't been
hacked a few times now where much of our personal data has been absconded with... just what would they do with all our personal data? Asking for a friend.