Trump is relying on this agency to reshape government President Donald Trump's new tool for reshaping the federal government is a relatively obscure agency, the Office of Personnel Management.
The unconventional plan shows both Trump's desire to bring the bureaucracy under control and the downsizing tendencies of Elon Musk, the multibillionaire Trump supporter who is leading the president's Department of Government Efficiency.
Slugged “Fork in the Road,” the OPM email is officially a “deferred resignation offer.” Federal workers outside the military, immigration enforcement, national security and the U.S.
Trump has argued that the bureaucracy in its current formation is not responsive enough to his agenda, leading him to want to install federal officials who will implement his plans as instructed.
Created in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter, the OPM is the equivalent of the government's human resources department.
