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.

Federal workers are turning to pronouns and pride flags to push back.

Democratic lawmakers gathered outside the Office of Personnel Management to protest the Trump administration's efforts to cut federal costs.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had some harsh words for the way DOGE was operating, calling the email sent to federal workers “intimidation,” and saying that she’s hearing from federal workers who are being “treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.”

The Office of Personnel Management said it can process pensions entirely digitally, in two days, in a video promoted by Elon Musk's DOGE.

Some federal agencies, including the State and Defense Departments, told their employees not to respond to an email asking for a list of tasks they completed.

is similarly barred from disclosing the personal data of the plaintiffs with any OPM employee working “principally” on the DOGE agenda. However, the same rule does not apply to the Department of Treasury, from which Boardman declined to banish DOGE.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats want documents pertaining to the DOGE-led reductions-in-force, per a letter sent Monday.

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.