The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state.

The Trump administration told federal agencies they don't have to direct workers to comply with Elon Musk's request for information about their activities at work.

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Since Elon Musk threatened federal workers with firings if they didn't list five work accomplishments, Trump tells them they're "on the bubble" if they don't comply.

Thousands of federal workers are out of a job, and further cuts are expected. Meanwhile, a federal judge has blocked the firings.

A rift appeared to open Sunday between some of President Donald Trump’s agency heads and Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with reforming the federal government, over Musk’s demand that all federal employees state their weekly accomplishments or risk termination.

As U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to reduce the size of the federal workforce through rapid-fire mass layoffs and buyouts, some Democratic governors are courting the newly unemployed to come to work for state governments instead.

“OPM also clarified that a non-response to the ... Parag was fired,” Musk wrote on X Saturday. Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid is hurting one of his major campaign promises: taking ...

A judge has found that the mass layoffs of probationary government employees were likely unlawful. Newsweek's live blog is closed.