The new high-up in the OPM has Noah Peters, a lawyer whose LinkedIn has claimed his work in litigation representing the National Rifle Association and who has written as a right-wing outlets Daily caller And this FederalHe is now also a senior advisor to the director. According to Matadata connected to a file on the OPM website, Peters wrote 27 January memo This acting went out under the name of OPM Director Charles Azel, which told how the department will implement one of the executive orders of Trump, “To restore accountability for policy-affected positions within the federal workforce.” What to do with what is sometimes known sometimes Schedule f-There are plans to re -order a number of civil service jobs as political appointments, which means that they will be bound by the specific agenda of a administration rather than a career government workers. This order will essentially allow some civil servants to remove in favor of Trump's loyalists for career, which is a significant part of the project 2025 scheme to remake the government, by classifying them as political appointments.
“I think on the technical side, anxiety is probably the use of AI, which will be identified for the effort and attaching to the job details of people, who will be identified for the schedule F re -evaluation,” says Mionihan. Are.
Other top political appointments include the McLarin Pinover, the Republican Congressman who is a former Communications Director for Wilson and the Deputy Director of Deputy Communications for the Republican Congress Michael McCall, and the Joanna Vister, a Trump Abhiyan speech writer.
“OPM is not a very political outfit,” called Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, a professor emeritus Steven Kelman. “I guess that generally, in the past, all of the OPM have only one or perhaps two political appointments. All other careers are. So it seems like a very political heavy presence in an organization that is not very political. ,
Another OPM MemoAccording to Matadata, the new withdrawal office (RTO) mandate of the government appears, it is also written by someone other than Azel -Jems Sherk, who was earlier at the US First Policy Institute and the author of the author was the author of the author earlier. . The opt-ed advocating the President to be able to set bureaucrats on fire. He is a special assistant to the President during the first term of Trump in the past, he Now a part of White House Domestic Policy Council,
As of November, RTO Policy Wall Street Journal Odd Written by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, clearly ready to force the attraction of federal employees.
Last week, many federal workers received testing emails from email address Hr@opm.govIn a case filed last night, The plaintiff accuses A new email list initiated by the Trump administration can compromise the data of federal employees.
Says Mionihan, “On a broader level, the concern is that technologists are playing a role for monitoring the employees and to target those who will be reduced,” Mionihan says. “In the federal government, it is really difficult to evaluate who is doing well or performing poorly. So do it on any type of mass automatic scale where you think that using any type of data analysis or AI will automate that process, I think, is an invitation to create errors. ,
Last week, the federal employees of the government encouraged them to encourage them to convert them into all colleagues, which they believed that they were working on diversity, equity, inclusion and access initiative (Deia), which email address deiatruth @OPM.Gov was for OPM.
“It reminds me of,” Calman says, “Soviet Stalinism of Soviet Stalinism to turn your friends towards the government.”
The OPM did not immediately respond to the request of the comment, nor do those who call the source that now sit on the bureaucracy.
Calman says, “I am not a dangerous person.” “I think some things that are being described here are very disturbing.”
Tim Marchman contributed to reporting.