Posted on 01/31/2025 4:28:07 PM PST by dynachrome
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials. Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists. Musk, the billionaire Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab CEO and X owner tasked by Trump to slash the size of the 2.2 million-strong civilian government workforce, has moved swiftly to install allies at the agency known as the Office of Personnel Management. The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data systems. The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.
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Curious.
What are the local, immediate issues, and what is the plan?
The winning continues. Looks like DOGE is heavily into all of this.
To keep them from deleting/changing data?
Good.
This is SOP at any business before firing someone. Nonsense headline.
“loyalists”
The projection is strong with this one.
It *is* a Revolution.
One team’s “hostile takeover” is another team’s
Winning!
Sounds like they are making it difficult for Clinton/Obama/Biden allies to collect political information . . .
Musk has brought in rocket scientists.
Literally.
LOL.
Sabotage postponed ... indefinitely!
Hallelujah!
Great source of data for voter rolls
They may be looking to minimize the ability of the HR establishment at OPM from frustrating the hiring freeze or other such things. Despite the hiring freeze, people have been getting notices that they didn’t get jobs for which they applied. The old guard in the federal bureaucracy is protecting itself from change. Limiting their power to do so is a key goal for Musk and DOGE.
“The projection is strong with this one.”
Yeah, he is not installing loyalists. He is getting rid of Dis-loyalists.
I would like to see Musk whittle the Federal Personel level down greatly. We know only about 20% actually do the work most others do not do that much. I see no reason we can’t reduce the work force by at least 50%.
Nonsense headline.“
I expect nothing less from the leftist a-holes at Reuters.
I suspect they have been busy destroying evidence since the election.
Hopefully there is still enough information to charge them.
That is very smart to prevent speciation of data.
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