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President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources departent.
President Trump's top budget office has directed agencies to pause federal loans and grants so the administration can review them.
See agency by agency, the more than one million federal workers who could be affected.
The Trump administration OPM and OMB offices went on a memo blitz on Monday, including directing agency leaders to pause federal grants and to deliver return to office plans.
Trump's deadlines for tariffs, federal worker buyouts and RTO, federal funding freeze, TikTok, and more are coming up. Here's a timeline of key dates.
Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.
Opinion
Trump’s Budget Chief Pick Refuses to Answer Questions—and GOP Lets Him
Senate GOP forges ahead with Trump’s budget pick amid funding freeze uproar
Senate Republicans who care about Congress’ spending authority aren’t going to oppose Russ Vought’s nomination to lead OMB as Democrats accuse the White House of curtailing lawmakers’ powers.
Senate Democrats boycott Trump's budget office director pick in wake of attempted funding freeze
After an attempt this week by President Donald Trump's budget office to freeze federal funding to determine if it aligned ideologically with his priorities, Senate Democrats, including Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico,
Senate Democrats are demanding Republicans postpone a vote scheduled for Thursday on Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, after the budget office on Monday issued a broadly worded memo freezing large swaths of federal assistance.
A White House order to freeze federal grants reflects a theory of presidential power that Donald Trump clearly endorsed during his 2024 campaign. The approach was further outlined in the Project 2025 governing treatise that candidate Trump furiously denied was a blueprint for his second administration.
Recent reports have shed light on a development that the Democrats has now got an opportunity due to US President Donald Trump, to pounce on the new administration alongside it is being also known that the White House is hastily yanking several memos.
Two-sentence memo ends days-long threats that sent officials, agencies and nonprofits into tailspin over ‘unconstitutional’ threats
Bangor-based nonprofits took to the streets Friday in protest of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and actions that they say is inhumane and unconstitutional.
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