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OPM has been recently embroiled in at least a dozen lawsuits raised by people concerned about alleged privacy violations brought by the agency and staffers working in it under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
One of Trump’s executive orders gives a senior presidential aide until the end of April to come up with a plan to fix hiring (or, at least, cut the time-to-hire to 80 days) and bring better performance management to the federal government.
The roadmap stands as a stark rebuke of proposals like Schedule F, the unsuccessful 2020 effort to convert tens of thousands of career federal workers in “policy-related” out of the competitive service, effectively making them at-will employees.