The proposed breakup, which has consumed the personnel agency for more than a year, would pull apart OPM and its 5,565 federal employees and divide it among three other departments. Critics say the proposal is a ploy to politicize the civil service by installing political appointees close to the White House. told Weichert, calling her justification “quite facile and a kind of double talk.”[Trump wants to blow up this federal agency. The move has also received a poor reception among Washington-area Senate Democrats, who have hundreds of thousands of federal employees in their districts. “This administration has been trying to undermine the civil service since Day One, questioning the loyalty of federal employees,” he testified.

Source: Washington Post May 21, 2019 23:37 UTC