The Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. federal agency managing the civil service. Incidents involve OPM actions related to mass firings, data misuse, and dismantlement of civil service protections.
DOGE directed mass firings of probationary employees, coerced ~75,000 resignations through the 'Fork in the Road' program, and orchestrated reductions in force totaling ~300,000 federal positions. …
On January 28, 2025, OPM sent the 'Fork in the Road' email — modeled on Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs — offering federal employees paid leave …
On February 14 ('Valentine's Day Massacre'), DOGE directed agencies to fire nearly 25,000 probationary employees, many falsely labeled as …
DOGE accessed Treasury, OPM, and SSA databases containing millions of Americans' personal data without authorization or completed background checks. Federal judges ordered data disgorged and deleted, …
DOGE staff were granted access to Treasury's central payment system (handling trillions in tax refunds, Social Security benefits, and …
A federal judge found DOGE staffers were given access before background checks were completed or inter-agency detail agreements were …
Schedule F reclassification targets 50,000 federal employees for removal of civil service protections, enabling political firing for 'subversion of presidential directives.' The rule strips appeal …
Approximately 50,000 federal employees (2% of the federal workforce) will be reclassified into 'Schedule Policy/Career,' losing civil …
The final rule removes statutory whistleblower protections and prevents workers from appealing their reclassification to the Merit Systems …