Among the new high people at the OPM, there is Noah Peters, a lawyer whose LinkedIn boasts of his work in disputes representing the National Rifle Association and who wrote for dots of right as the Daily caller and the Federalist; He is also now the principal advisor to the director. According to metadata associated with a file on the OPM website, Peters is the author Memo of January 27 This took place under the name of the acting director of the OPM, Charles Ezell, describing how the ministry would implement one of Trump’s decrees, “The restoration of responsibility for the influence of policies within the federal workforce.” It has to do with what is sometimes called Calendar F—A plan to recategorize many public service jobs as political names, which means that they would be linked to the specific agenda of an administration, rather than considered as employees of the career government. The order would essentially allow the career that certain officials were withdrawn in favor of Trump’s loyalists by classifying them as politicians, a key element of the plan of the 2025 project to redo the government.
“I think that on the technological side, the concern is potentially the use of AI to try to engage in large -scale research of the post descriptions of people to try to identify who would be identified for the reclassification of the ‘Annex F, ”explains Moynihan.
Among the other people appointed politicians, let us quote McLaurine Pinover, a former communications director for the member of the Republican Congress Joe Wilson and the Deputy Communications Director for the member of the Republican Congress Michael McCaul, and Joanna Wischer, speech editor of the Trump campaign .
“The OPM is not a very politicized organization,” explains Steven Kelman, professor emeritus at the John F. Kennedy de Harvard school of government. “I assume that generally, in the past, there has been only one or perhaps two names politicians throughout the OPM. All the others are a career. It therefore seems to be a very political very political presence in an organization which is not very political. »»
Another MEMO OPMConcerning the new mandate of return to the office (RTO) of the government, also seems to have been written by someone other than Ezell – James Sherk, previously at the America First Policy Institute and author of a OP-ED pleading so that the president can dismiss bureaucrats. Former special assistant of the president during the first term of Trump, he is now part of the White House domestic policies.
RTO policy, according to November Op-Ed du Wall Street Journal Written by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is explicitly designed to force the attrition of federal employees.
Last week, many federal workers received e-mail e-mail test emails Hr@opm.gov. In a trial lodged last night, lightens the complainants That a new distribution list launched by the Trump administration may compromise data from federal employees.
“In a widest level, the concern is that technologists play a role in monitoring employees and targeting those who will be reduced,” explains Moynihan. “It is difficult in the federal government to really assess that works well or bad. It therefore makes it a kind of automated mass scale where you think that using a kind of data analysis or AI would automate this process, I think, is an invitation to make mistakes. »»
Last week, government employees of the government received email encouraging them to put colleagues that they believed to work on diversity, equity, inclusion and access initiatives (DEIA) to the OPM via the ‘E-mail address deiatruth@opm.gov.
“It reminded me,” explains Kelman, “Soviet Stalinism to transform your friends to the government.”
The OPM did not immediately respond to a request for comments, and the people, according to sources, are no longer seated at the top of the bureaucracy.
“I am not an alarmist person,” explains Kelman. “I think that some of the things described to us here are very disturbing.”
Tim Marchman contributed the reports.
