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  • Biden Hides Public Records Showing How Much Taxpayers Are Paying Unions

    03/16/2024 6:25:04 AM PDT · by Twotone · 12 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | March 14, 2024 | Luke Rosiak
    The federal government pays more than $100 million a year to employees who aren’t doing their actual government jobs, but rather working for unions representing government employees against management — with taxpayers essentially funding both sides of the bargaining table. For decades, the government has tracked and reported those figures, but the Biden administration has removed the reports. Under the policy known as “official time,” hundreds of nominal government employees haven’t done anything but full-time union work in years, yet remain on the federal payroll. Not only is the policy expensive to taxpayers, but it also props up the power...
  • Nancy Pelosi Caught Tricking Her Own Donors With A Deceptive Promise

    05/25/2021 1:20:48 PM PDT · by A.M. Smith · 18 replies
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s campaign committee has repeatedly promised her donors she would personally match their financial contributions, but so far she has not matched a single cent, according to a report. Pelosi has been using a popular deceptive tactic that is used in political fundraising to gather more donations. The tactic, which promise donation-matching, has been under intense scrutiny according to a report by Axios Pelosi’s campaign has reportedly gone a step further by the speaker promising the contribution matching would come from her personal fortune. But, reports show Pelosi has not made a single contribution from herself. According...
  • Human rights groups say calling Papua insurgents ‘terrorists’ may escalate violence

    04/30/2021 10:12:01 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Arab News ^ | April 30, 2021 | unattributed
    They also warned that the move could worsen the already fragile human rights situation in the easternmost region of the country, amid accusations of numerous incidents of violence.Papua officially became a part of Indonesia in 1969, following a plebiscite in which representatives of various Papuan tribes voted in favor of joining the republic. As their votes were cast under a heavy military presence, Papuan separatists, including the Free Papua Movement (OPM), have since called for a fresh vote on self-determination, prompting military operations and retaliatory attacks against Indonesian personnel.
  • Biden Nominee to OPM Signals Woke-ification of the Federal Government

    04/24/2021 7:42:57 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 22 replies
    The Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 23, 2021 | Aaron Sibarium
    Kiran Ahuja, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management, has said her goal is to free "black queer and trans people" from the "daily trials of white supremacy." If confirmed, Ahuja would help set hiring standards and coordinate diversity training across the entire federal government. Until her February nomination, Ahuja was the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest, a nonprofit that offers "diversity, equity, and inclusion-focused programs" to philanthropic foundations. In a blog post written last year on Philanthropy Northwest's website, Ahuja pledged to play a "vocal role in our country’s eternal battle for racial equality." The post...
  • New Election Lawsuits [Weekly Update]

    03/26/2021 3:54:02 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 6 replies
    Judicial Watch ^ | March 26, 2021 | Tom Fitton
    Pelosi Congress Assault on Election Integrity Raises Constitutional Questions Lawsuit: 2,400 Illegal Alien Criminals Released under San Francisco Sheriff’s Office Sanctuary Policy Judicial Watch Sues Georgia Secretary of State for Records about Changes to Processing of Absentee Ballots in 2020 Election, and 2021 Trump/Raffensperger Call Fauci Update: Judicial Watch Sues for NIH Funding and Other Records Tied to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology Judicial Watch Sues OPM for Records on Agency Personnel Classes, Seminars in China; Breach of OPM Data Pelosi Congress Assault on Election Integrity Raises Constitutional Questions Robert Popper is a Judicial Watch senior attorney who served...
  • OPM chief abruptly resigns

    03/17/2020 6:31:35 PM PDT · by bitt · 47 replies
    The Hill ^ | 3/17/2020 | brett samuels
    The head of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) abruptly resigned Tuesday, leaving a void atop a sprawling agency that oversees the federal workforce. "OPM has received the resignation of OPM Director Dale Cabaniss and OPM Deputy Director Michael Rigas is Acting Director, Office of Personnel Management," an OPM spokesperson confirmed in a statement. Cabaniss's departure was unexpected, according to sources familiar with the matter, and was believed to be related to internal conflicts. She chafed at treatment by John McEntee, the 29-year-old head of the office, as well as Paul Dans, OPM’s White House liaison, Politico reported. McEntee...
  • Trump administration threatens layoffs in fight to eliminate major federal agency

    06/20/2019 7:21:03 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 21 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 20 2019 | Ronn Blitzer
    Trump administration officials have put the Office of Personnel Management on the chopping block in an ambitious but controversial bid to reorganize the federal government -- and they are ready to furlough or even lay off workers if Congress stands in their way. According to an internal document obtained by The Washington Post, workers could be sent home on Oct. 1 and laid off 30 days later, if Congress will not agree to their plan to eliminate the agency -- which essentially serves as HR of the federal government. “This is a crisis building for years,” acting OPM Director Margaret...
  • Illinois residents could be charged $1,000 a year to own an electric vehicle under new legislation

    05/11/2019 1:00:49 PM PDT · by Hojczyk · 104 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 11,2019 | By David Aaro |
    The proposal would raise the annual registration fee to $1,000, more than 57 times the current amount of $17.50. Illinois officials believe the legislation will raise $2.4 billion for future projects, the major one being roadway improvement, according to the Chicago Tribune. The bill would also make things more expensive for residents who drive non-electric cars. The state's gas tax would go up 19 cents to 44 cents a gallon, fees for driver’s licenses would double and the registration fee for non-electric vehicles would go up nearly 50% from $98 to $148. “It’s outrageous,” Tesla owner Nicoletta Skarlatos, 56, told...
  • PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ELIMINATING A MAJOR FEDERAL AGENCY. THE WHITE HOUSE TOLD US WHY

    04/12/2019 2:34:00 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 72 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 9:47 AM 04/12/2019 | Molly Prince
    The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and reorganize the agency’s responsibilities into three existing departments in order to “drive what is needed to support the mission in all of government.” “When we really look at the need for government overall, and we looked at the [OPM’s] design to support those needs, there was a fundamental structural misalignment between the challenges of today around our workforce and what OPM was conditioned to do,” Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told The Daily Caller...
  • President to eliminate a sluggish, inefficient government agency, left freaks [OPM]

    04/10/2019 1:15:12 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    www.independentsentinel.com ^ | April 10, 2019 | By S.Noble
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email Tumblr Share The Trump administration is considering eliminating a government agency that is ineffective and inefficient. It would be the fulfillment of a promise to shrink the size of government. The left isn’t taking it well, but they never take anything well. If the administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shutting other departments down. That is the idea of course. The functions of the agency would be split among three other departments and he will do it via executive order. It is in the final...
  • If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out

    04/10/2019 7:15:39 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 38 replies
    The Washington Compost ^ | April 10, 2019 | Staff Progressive Disseminator
    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...
  • Trump ousts federal personnel director

    10/05/2018 2:00:06 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 16 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/05/18 | JORDAN FABIAN
    President Trump on Friday abruptly ousted the director of federal personnel and replaced him with a top official at the Office of Management and Budget, according to the White House. The White House said in a brief statement Margaret Weichert, who serves as deputy director for management at the White House Office of Management and Budget, will helm the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in an acting capacity "in addition to her current duties." Weichert will replace Jeff Pon, a business executive who had been in the post just since March. The White House did not respond to a request...
  • The IRS Doesn’t Know Who’s Accessing Its Most Sensitive Data

    05/22/2018 10:51:08 AM PDT · by DFG · 9 replies
    Nextgov ^ | 05/21/2018 | Joseph Marks
    The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t accurately cataloged all the components of its highest value hardware and software systems and doesn’t have a clear count of who has privileged access to those systems, according to an audit released Monday. The IRS also likely isn’t patching software vulnerabilities on its highest value assets within the 30-day timeframe required for federal agencies, according to the audit from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Because the agency doesn’t maintain historical data about patching, however, it’s difficult to say for certain how long vulnerabilities are going unpatched, the audit states.
  • GOP chairman demands answers on how Leandra English got job at CFPB

    11/29/2017 11:11:48 AM PST · by jazusamo · 27 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | November 29, 2017 | Stephan Dinan
    Sen. Ron Johnson says woman who claims to be acting chief ‘burrowed’ into agencyA top Republican demanded answers Wednesday on how Leandra English, the woman Democrats are pushing to be acting director of the government’s top consumer advocacy agency, managed to “burrow” into her job and outlast the Obama administration. Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Ms. English held a political job at the Office of Personnel Management but managed to convert herself to a career civil service position early this year at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The process is called “burrowing,”...
  • Health insurers earn billions, while patients and doctors suffer under ObamaCare

    10/27/2017 6:14:11 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 39 replies
    Fox New.com ^ | October 27, 2017 | Dr Marc Siegel
    I remember when my patients used to pay me up front for my service, and then apply to their insurance company for reimbursement. Health insurance policies came in all shapes and sizes back then, some more comprehensive than others, depending on a patient’s needs. Patients understood that health insurance was not the same thing as health care, and that it was at best a promise that sometimes went unfulfilled. Over the years insurers gained more control of the health-care system, until I had to appeal to the insurance company to be reimbursed for a service I had already provided. Since...
  • Chinese national arrested on charges linked to OPM, Anthem hacks

    08/27/2017 3:10:51 AM PDT · by BlackAdderess · 10 replies
    The Washington TImes ^ | August 25, 2017 | Andrew Blake
    The FBI has arrested a Chinese national on charges involving the malware used to hack the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2014 and steal personal information pertaining to millions of federal government employees and contractors. Yu Pingan, apprehended Monday at Los Angeles International Airport after flying in to attend a conference, was in federal court this week to face charges concerning Sakula, a sophisticated piece of malware used by the hackers who pulled off the historic OPM breach as well as the 2015 intrusion suffered by health insurance firm Anthem, among others. He is charged with a single count...
  • FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years

    04/12/2016 2:26:50 PM PDT · by unixfox · 49 replies
    Motherboard ^ | 04/04/2016 | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
    The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available online, shows that foreign government hackers are still successfully hacking and stealing data from US government’s servers, their activities going unnoticed for years. This comes months after the US government revealed that a group of hackers, widely believed to be working for the Chinese government, had for...
  • A billionaire-owned restaurant charged a ‘minimum wage’ fee. Outrage ensued

    08/22/2017 5:12:08 PM PDT · by Pontiac · 44 replies
    Washington Post ^ | August 17, 2017 | Maura Judkis
    A customer dining at D.C.’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.” Brian, who asked The Washington Post to use only his first name to avoid conflicts with his employer, was surprised to see the additional charge. He snapped a picture and sent it to local blog Popville, which posted a picture of his receipt. The outraged comments started rolling in. “Just raise prices if you...
  • Climate change' fight has cost you more than $166 billion

    06/12/2017 5:36:54 AM PDT · by rktman · 15 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 6/12/2017 | Joe Wilson
    The U.S. government spent nearly as much fighting “climate change” between 1993 and 2014 as was spent on the entire Apollo program between 1962 and 1973, according to a new report. A May 2017 report from the Capital Research Center (CRS) states that “from FY 1993 to FY 2014 total U.S. expenditures on climate change amount to more than $166 billion.” The total includes more than $26.1 billion from President Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill, as well as regular annual budget amounts and federal tax credits distributed over a period of 21 years. In comparison, the U.S. spent $200 billion, adjusted...
  • OPM's Return to Paper Security Clearance Processing Roils Contractors, Lawmakers

    07/06/2015 7:24:43 PM PDT · by markomalley · 17 replies
    Government Executive ^ | 7/6/15 | Eric Katz
    The Office of Personnel Management has decided to take a step back in an attempt to move forward after hackers breached files containing sensitive data on millions of current and former federal employees, but some stakeholders are not fully on board with the plan. The agency sent an advisory last week to federal offices instructing them to temporarily collect paper copies of employees’ background investigation forms, rather than processing them electronically. OPM reached that decision after it shut down e-QIP, the Web tool that tracks employee background investigations, due to vulnerabilities that led to a breach of the personal information...