Washington (CNN) The Trump administration is planning to dismantle the Office of Personnel Management, a decades-old federal agency that oversees the federal government's civil service, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The paper said the agency "would be pulled apart and its functions divided among three other departments." According to the paper, the agency's 5,565 employees were briefed on the plan in March. It also said officials "were not able to estimate the short- or long-term savings" of the agency's closure. Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House, told CNN Wednesday that Trump "is committed to reforming the federal government, making it more efficient, effective, and accountable for hardworking American taxpayers."

Source: CNN April 10, 2019 19:41 UTC