(Ralph Alswang/Ralph Alswang)The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government. For Trump, the breakup of the 5,565-employee federal personnel agency would offer a jolt of bureaucratic defibrillation to a slow-to-change workforce that the president and his top aides have targeted as a symptom of a sluggish, inefficient government. She characterized the agency created to oversee the civil service in 1978 as “fundamentally not set up for success, structurally.”The Office of Personnel Management building is seen in Washington. But the personnel agency has a government-wide central management role, which makes abolishing it attractive to the Trump administration.

Source: Washington Post April 10, 2019 09:56 UTC