President Trump’s administration is consolidating the hiring and firing of federal workers to one main office.
This consolidation will ensure top-level bureaucrats are loyal to President Trump and faithful to administration of the law and the president’s policies, and to the execution of the president’s agenda.
from This from therightscoop.com.
Think of it as the only suitable response to ‘Lessons Learned’ during his first term and the seemingly endless number of embedded anti-Trump activists within the administration still, as well as the necessary ongoing push to drain The Swamp.
The administration will be positioning a key agency to continue some of Elon Musk’s shrinking of the U.S. government as the Tesla CEO pulls back from Washington.
The effort is centralized in the Office of Personnel Management, the human-resources arm of the government. The office, a hub of Musk’s project, has begun approving positions federal agencies want to add, according to agency bulletins reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
NOTE: This is a change; agencies have typically decided which positions they filled.
Immediately after the inauguration, OPM’s upper ranks were flooded with personnel tied to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
They rapidly began issuing orders that have weakened other agencies’ control over their own workforce, in many cases bringing hiring, firing, and performance evaluation—which for some employees, will soon be based primarily on execution of the president’s agenda—under the purview of OPM.
Top-ranking bureaucrats will be evaluated on their “faithful administration of the law and the president’s policies,” according to two memos from OPM Acting Director Chuck Ezell, which describe advancing the president’s policy agenda as the “most critical element” in assessing performance. Agencies were directed to adopt the new performance plan by the beginning of fiscal year 2026.
Previously, personnel had been graded on their competencies in areas including business acumen, leadership skills, ability to build coalitions, and results.
Musk said Tuesday he would pull back from leading DOGE’s government-slashing campaign. OPM seems likely to figure prominently in efforts to institutionalize DOGE’s mandate post-Musk, according to current and former OPM employees.
An OPM official said the agency has been reviewing new agency positions to ensure they are exempt from a governmentwide hiring freeze instituted on President Trump’s first day in office, and will stop doing so once the hiring freeze is lifted. The freeze was recently extended through mid-July. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
People can criticize Trump all they want for this, but it is absolutely necessary to ensure his agenda is carried out properly. There have been too many traitors in the past and all administrations do this to some degree.
Sadly, politics has come to this, but when there are people willing to weaponize their jobs to destroy part of Trump’s agenda, this safeguard must be utilized.
God speed to the Trump-Vance team.
