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.
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency wants to charge at least one federal agency millions of dollars for its work.
The Office of Personnel Management said it can process pensions entirely digitally, in two days, in a video promoted by Elon Musk's DOGE.
Of the federal government's roughly 2.4 million person workforce, excluding military personnel, just over 1 million responded to DOGE's previous email demand.
The Defense Department initially told employees to "pause any response" to OPM's request for a list of their work accomplishments.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats want documents pertaining to the DOGE-led reductions-in-force, per a letter sent Monday.