Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump excludes low-value shipments from looming tariffs
President Donald Trump on Sunday amended two executive orders to exempt imports valued at less than $800 from Canada and Mexico.
‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government
The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state.
Judge rules OPM cannot fire federal workers at other agencies
A judge ruled the OPM cannot directly fire federal workers at other agencies and that they have to rescind their mass firing memo. Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade and Yale Law School Professor Natasha Sarin join José Díaz-Balart to discuss.
Democratic lawmaker demands Musk, OPM stop sending mass emails to staffers: ‘Chaotic’
Cali., on Wednesday demanded that Elon Musk and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell stop sending mass emails to staffers.

OPM alters memo about probationary employees

Judge Says OPM Had 'No Authority Whatsoever' To Fire Probationary Employees
Judge orders recission of OPM memos directing agencies to fire probationary employees
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OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
OPM's second email to federal employees asks what they did last week — and adds a new requirement: report
New Musk-Inspired Email to Federal Workers Seeks Weekly Reports
Federal workers get a new email demanding their accomplishments
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Trump order calls for creation of DOGE-linked agency payment-tracking systems; OPM signals broad agency layoffs, reorganization in new memo
President Trump's latest DOGE execute order calls for the creation of IT systems to track spending at agencies. And, more widespread layoffs are coming, according to an OPM memo.
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Judge blocks Department of Education, OPM from disclosing troves of sensitive personal data to DOGE
A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing troves of sensitive personal data from federal agencies. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that the Department of Education and its employees may not disclose to DOGE the personally identifying information of six Americans and the members of five union
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Trump appointees appear to contradict Musk for first time in pushback to OPM email
The scramble to discern Trump and Musk’s exact intentions with the email added another layer of uncertainty to an already-rattled federal workforce. It seemed to set up a showdo
Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful
US District Judge William Alsup ordered the OPM to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including the Department of Defense.
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Connolly calls on OPM to reverse CIO classification change
Rep. Gerry Connolly, the ranking member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, said the CIOs should remain career-reserve SES positions.
The Private Sector Can’t Fix What’s Wrong With America
"The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector," read a line from an email sent to federal employees from the United States Office of Personnel Management in late January.