Trump Takes Hatchet to Big Government

Trump Plans to Eliminate This Federal Agency

2019-04-13

Source: AAN by: AAN Staff

Trump Plans to Eliminate This Federal Agency

The Trump administration is determined to abolish the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and reorganize the agency into three other departments to streamline the bloated federal bureaucracy.

The Daily Caller reports:

“When we really look at the need for government overall, and we looked at the [OPM’s] design to support those needs, there was a fundamental structural misalignment between the challenges of today around our workforce and what OPM was conditioned to do,” Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.

The agency was formed in 1979 and tasked with managing the government’s civilian workforce, which includes healthcare, insurance and retirement benefits, as well as oversight and human resources policies for federal employees.

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to dismantle OPM, beginning in fall 2019, and divide its functions among three separate departments: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

The OPM is responsible for managing the majority of government security clearances. The restructuring would have the DOD oversee the massive background investigation operation. And GSA could soon take over OPM’s current human resources obligations, according to The Washington Post.

White House staff do not believe the planned restructuring will result in any federal layoffs.

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