8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (15)
#10697002 at 2020-09-18 20:42:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13690: NO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS Edition
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Proclamation on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 2020
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-pow-mia-recognition-day-2020/
Second Lady Karen Pence Highlights Veteran Suicide Prevention Efforts in Arizona
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/second-lady-karen-pence-highlights-veteran-suicide-prevention-efforts-arizona/
Presidential Message on the 73rd Birthday of the United States Air Force
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-73rd-birthday-united-states-air-force/
Presidential Message on Rosh Hashanah, 2020
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-rosh-hashanah-2020/
Statement from the Press Secretary on the Largest FEMA Infrastructure Grants Being Awarded to Puerto Rico
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-largest-fema-infrastructure-grants-awarded-puerto-rico/
Sharon E. Goodie, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen years, vice Patricia A. Broderick, term expired.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/one-nomination-sent-senate/
Allen Dickerson, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2025, vice Caroline C. Hunter, resigned.
Michael Rigas, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, vice Margaret Weichert, resigned.
Nathan A. Simington, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years from July 1, 2019, vice Michael P. O'Rielly, term expired.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/three-nominations-sent-senate-091620/
#6831733 at 2019-06-24 18:17:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8737: When the sky is your office Edition
Trump ordered John Brennan's security clearance be taken away but the OPM didn't remove it so Trump is going close that government agency entirely.
"This is a crisis building for years," acting OPM Director Margaret Weichert told the Post. Weichert said furloughs are a "last resort we are trying to avoid," and that "a legislative solution would be the most straightforward answer."
The administration's plan is to eliminate the OPM, which manages 2.1 million civilian federal workers, and divide its roles among three other agencies. Recent legislation has already called for its security clearance system to move to the Department of Defense. Most of OPM's responsibilities would fall under the General Services Administration, and a new GSA deputy who would be appointed by the president to take over for OPM's current agency director.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-layoffs-eliminate-agency
#6791658 at 2019-06-19 20:27:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8687: Winning Anyway Edition
the chopping has begun:
The Trump administration has reportedly indicated it could furlough or eventually lay off 150 employees at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency tasked with managing the federal workforce.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that an internal document shows the administration is preparing to begin furloughing employees on Oct. 1 if Congress blocks an effort to eliminate the agency and redistribute its duties. Those furloughed OPM employees could then be formally laid off after 30 days, the Post reported.
Margaret Weichert, the acting OPM director, told the Post that the administration would not wait if Congress doesn't take action to address issues with the agency.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/449337-trump-officials-threaten-to-furlough-150-workers-at-federal-personnel
#6152621 at 2019-04-12 18:57:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7868 When Does a Bird Sing? Edition
President Trump Is Eliminating A Major Federal Agency. The White House Told Us Why
The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and reorganize the agency's responsibilities into three existing departments in order to "drive what is needed to support the mission in all of government."
"When we really look at the need for government overall, and we looked at the [OPM's] design to support those needs, there was a fundamental structural misalignment between the challenges of today around our workforce and what OPM was conditioned to do," Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
The agency was formed in 1979 and tasked with managing the government's civilian workforce, which includes healthcare, insurance and retirement benefits, as well as oversight and human resources policies for federal employees.
President Donald Trump's administration is planning to dismantle OPM, beginning in fall 2019, and divide its functions among three separate departments: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The OPM is responsible for managing the majority of government security clearances. The restructuring would have the DOD oversee the massive background investigation operation. And GSA could soon take over OPM's current human resources obligations, according to The Washington Post.
OMB would head the high-level policies that govern federal employees, but only three people from OPM are expected to transfer over to the executive office, a senior administration official explained to TheDCNF. However, those three individuals would be assigned new roles in the department.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/office-personnel-management-trump/
#6148953 at 2019-04-12 09:06:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7863: FRIDAY FUN Edition
WOW: Trump Takes Hammer To Big Government, Will ELIMINATE A Major Federal Department
President Donald Trump has been railing against big government for several years and has been trying to reduce the size of it since taking office two years ago.
According to The Hill, Trump is trying to do what has not been done since World War II: eliminate a federal agency.
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the Office of Personnel Management and will shift its responsibilities to other various departments.
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Here's more from The Hill:
If Trump's administration is successful, the OPM would be the first federal department eliminated since World War II.
According to the Post, the OPM's responsibilities would be shifted to three other departments.
Trump's announcement on the agency is reportedly likely to occur over the summer and OPM employees were briefed on the matter at a meeting in March.
According to the Post, the administration views the agency as an example of inefficient, slow-moving government.
"Reached for comment, a White House spokesperson referred The Hill to previous proposals calling for the reorganization of OPM.
"President Trump is committed to reforming the federal government, making it more efficient, effective, and accountable for hardworking American taxpayers," the spokesperson added.
"It's a big, exemplary step," Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told the Post in an interview.
She characterized the agency created to oversee the civil service in 1978 as "fundamentally not set up for success, structurally."
Here's more on the steps that the White House has taken so far:
The White House is attempting to dismantle the agency in several stages, with some steps beginning now and other changes delayed pending congressional approval.
But by starting the process, the administration hopes to claim a win on a major government reorganization plan that has languished without buy-in from Congress.
The plan envisions a smaller, more consolidated government in line with the president's campaign promise to "cut so much your head will spin." Wiping out the federal personnel agency could be Exhibit A as Trump's reelection campaign assembles a list of victories to take to voters, from deregulation and tax cuts to trade tariffs.
The White House is taking steps now to parcel out many of the other responsibilities by the fall. The agency's massive background investigation operation will migrate first to the Defense Department. The General Services Administration, the federal real estate agency, will absorb OPM's human resources role, including training, pay and hiring, workforce planning, and the inspector general's office.
The Office of Management and Budget would take over high-level policies governing federal employees, a plan that advocates and unions are decrying as a backdoor ploy to politicize the civil service by installing political appointees close to the White House.
This would certainly be a huge move and something that many Americans would applaud.
https://ilovemyfreedom.org/wow-trump-takes-hammer-to-big-government-will-eliminate-a-major-federal-department/
#6145400 at 2019-04-12 02:16:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7859: All Your Servers Are Belong To Us Edition
>>6145011 lb
In President Trump speak…its already done.
Anonymous 04/11/19 (Thu) 20:45:04 36da0e (2) No.6145011>>6145038 >>6145196 >>6145260
If we are now seeing this that means it is already underway!!!! Seems notable?
WASHINGTON - The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.
If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government.
The agency would be pulled apart and its functions divided among three other departments. An executive order directing parts of the transition by the fall is in the final stages of review, administration officials said, with an announcement by President Donald Trump likely by summer. OPM employees were briefed at a meeting in March.
For Trump, the breakup of the 5,565-employee federal personnel agency would offer a jolt of bureaucratic defibrillation to a slow-to-change workforce that the president and his top aides have targeted as a symptom of a sluggish, inefficient government.
The experiment will be closely watched not just on Capitol Hill, but also by other agencies that could be next.
"It's a big, exemplary step," Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, said in an interview. She characterized the agency created to oversee the civil service in 1978 as "fundamentally not set up for success, structurally."
The agency is responsible for managing the civilian federal workforce; coordinating hiring, recruiting and performance policies; overseeing health insurance and retirement benefits; and ensuring that agencies adhere to laws governing employees' rights under an apolitical merit system.
For Democrats and their allies in the labor movement, the effort to abolish the agency and redistribute its functions is a power play in defiance of Congress.
"Does anyone really think that if tomorrow the president said, 'I'm dismantling DOD, and I think Ben Carson over at HUD can handle procurement and Betsy DeVos over at Education can handle the Army,' that it would fly through?" asked Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., chairman of a House Oversight Committee panel on government operations.
He has sent Weichert a lengthy request for details of the plan and is scheduling a hearing this spring "so you can make your case."
Watchers of the federal government say they cannot remember a stand-alone department of OPM's scope being dismantled since the World War II era. The Works Progress Administration, a New Deal agency that carried out public works projects, was dissolved in 1943. Congress abolished the Community Services Administration in 1981 and folded its functions into the Department of Health and Human Services, a closure faulted by congressional auditors as poorly handled. OPM, with a $2.1 billion annual budget, is bigger and more multifaceted.
Some former agencies, such as the Home Owners' Loan Corp., which was prominent in the 1930s, once were large but shrank substantially before being eliminated.
"We're very good at creating new entities," said John Palguta, a retired career executive with the Merit Systems Protection Board, "but we haven't abolished very much. I haven't seen this kind of wholesale dismantlement of an independent, executive branch agency."
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/white-house-considering-dismantling-the-office-of-personnel-management-1.576421
#6145011 at 2019-04-12 01:45:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7858: "JA in the news? Think JC. Server unlocks SR" Edition
If we are now seeing this that means it is already underway!!!! Seems notable?
WASHINGTON - The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.
If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shuttering other departments as it tries to shrink government.
The agency would be pulled apart and its functions divided among three other departments. An executive order directing parts of the transition by the fall is in the final stages of review, administration officials said, with an announcement by President Donald Trump likely by summer. OPM employees were briefed at a meeting in March.
For Trump, the breakup of the 5,565-employee federal personnel agency would offer a jolt of bureaucratic defibrillation to a slow-to-change workforce that the president and his top aides have targeted as a symptom of a sluggish, inefficient government.
The experiment will be closely watched not just on Capitol Hill, but also by other agencies that could be next.
"It's a big, exemplary step," Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, said in an interview. She characterized the agency created to oversee the civil service in 1978 as "fundamentally not set up for success, structurally."
The agency is responsible for managing the civilian federal workforce; coordinating hiring, recruiting and performance policies; overseeing health insurance and retirement benefits; and ensuring that agencies adhere to laws governing employees' rights under an apolitical merit system.
For Democrats and their allies in the labor movement, the effort to abolish the agency and redistribute its functions is a power play in defiance of Congress.
"Does anyone really think that if tomorrow the president said, 'I'm dismantling DOD, and I think Ben Carson over at HUD can handle procurement and Betsy DeVos over at Education can handle the Army,' that it would fly through?" asked Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., chairman of a House Oversight Committee panel on government operations.
He has sent Weichert a lengthy request for details of the plan and is scheduling a hearing this spring "so you can make your case."
Watchers of the federal government say they cannot remember a stand-alone department of OPM's scope being dismantled since the World War II era. The Works Progress Administration, a New Deal agency that carried out public works projects, was dissolved in 1943. Congress abolished the Community Services Administration in 1981 and folded its functions into the Department of Health and Human Services, a closure faulted by congressional auditors as poorly handled. OPM, with a $2.1 billion annual budget, is bigger and more multifaceted.
Some former agencies, such as the Home Owners' Loan Corp., which was prominent in the 1930s, once were large but shrank substantially before being eliminated.
"We're very good at creating new entities," said John Palguta, a retired career executive with the Merit Systems Protection Board, "but we haven't abolished very much. I haven't seen this kind of wholesale dismantlement of an independent, executive branch agency."
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/white-house-considering-dismantling-the-office-of-personnel-management-1.576421
#6122128 at 2019-04-10 17:07:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7829: The P A N I C Edition
Trump moving to dismantle OPM
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President Trump is moving to dismantle the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), The Washington Post reported Wednesday.'''
If Trump's administration is successful, the OPM would be the first federal department eliminated since World War II.
According to the Post, the OPM's responsibilities would be shifted to three other departments.
Trump's announcement on the agency is reportedly likely to occur over the summer and OPM employees were briefed on the matter at a meeting in March.
According to the Post, the administration views the agency as an example of inefficient, slow moving government.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill on Trump's plans for the OPM.
"It's a big, exemplary step," Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told the Post in an interview.
She characterized the agency created to oversee the civil service in 1978 as "fundamentally not set up for success, structurally."
The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, with 750,000 members, has called the idea "Trump's Dangerous Plan to Abolish OPM."
The union predicts a "disastrous" result if policy for federal employees moves so close to the White House.
Federal employees would be forced "into a fight for the pay and benefits they've earned every time an administration decides they want to free up money for a pet political project," the union said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/438240-trump-moving-to-dismantle-opm-report?__twitter_impression=true
#5505970 at 2019-03-04 21:45:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7040: 'WAR-LIKE' POSTURE ACTIVATED Edition
Trump picks new federal personnel director
By Jordan Fabian - 03/04/19 04:41 PM EST
President Trump will nominate Dale Cabaniss, a longtime Republican official in Washington, as director of federal personnel, the White House announced on Monday.
Cabaniss will replace Jeff Pon, who was ousted by Trump last October after just seven months on the job amid a dispute over the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) powers.
Margaret Weichert, a senior official in the White House budget office, had been running OPM in an acting capacity.
Cabaniss served as chairwoman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which oversees collective bargaining and disputes between agencies and workers, under President George W. Bush and has worked on civil service issues for two decades on the Senate Appropriations and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees.
Pon, a business executive, tendered his resignation at the behest of the Trump administration over tensions sparked by proposed civil service reforms that would have curtailed OPM's powers or handed some of its functions to other agencies.
In an interview with The Washington Post at the time, Weichert said the decision was in line with Trump's "management agenda."
OPM is an independent agency tasked with overseeing the federal workforce. It became the object of heavy scrutiny in 2015 after a data breach exposed the personal data of roughly 21.5 million federal employees and other people who underwent background checks for security clearances.
Cabaniss must be confirmed by the Senate before she can assume her new job.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432536-trump-picks-new-federal-personnel-director
#4765044 at 2019-01-15 17:22:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6081: Done in [30] Edition
This is Mark Robbins..
He's the attorney Trump just appointed to the OPM, the office that will handle the Reduction in Personnel when the [30] furlough is up on Sunday, Jan 20th…
Mark A. Robbins appointed OPM General Counsel
WASHINGTON - Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Margaret Weichert announced today that Mark A. Robbins will serve as OPM's new General Counsel. Consistent with 5 USC § 1201, President Trump has issued a memorandum directing Mr. Robbins, current Acting Chairman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), to serve concurrently as OPM General Counsel.
"I'm very excited that Mark is returning to OPM," said Acting Director Margaret Weichert. "Mark brings extensive professional experience that will help OPM deliver mission outcomes that will help advance the President's Management Agenda."
Nice watch, don't ya think?
#4613636 at 2019-01-05 21:17:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5885: MIRROR Edition
White House Freezes Raises for Top Administration Officials Including VP Pence
Vice President Mike Pence and other top Trump administration officials won't receive pay increases that were set to automatically trigger due to the government shutdown.
Federal agencies were told to hold off on enacting pay increases on Jan. 4, in a memo from Margaret Weichert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
The raises would have been triggered due to a pay freeze for top federal officials expiring because of the shutdown. That freeze was enacted through a law passed by Congress in 2013, reported the Washington Times.
Pence's annual salary would have risen from $230,700 to $243,500 while the salaries of hundreds of top officials would have gone up by around $10,000.
"In the current absence of Congressional guidance," OPM "believes it would be prudent for agencies to continue to pay these senior political officials at the frozen rate until appropriations legislation is enacted that would clarify the status of the freeze," Weichert wrote.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-freezes-raises-for-top-administration-officials-including-vp-pence_2757703.html
#3970579 at 2018-11-20 14:15:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5051: ebake
>>3970466
> chain of resporting is not limited to the AG's office, but ALSO THE OPM DIRECTOR & the OMB DIRECTOR.
OMB DIRECTOR - Mick Mulvaney (rockstar)
OPM DIRECTOR (new as of 10/05/18) - Margaret Weichert, Mulvaney's deputy at OMB
Could be reading wrong, but this Special Counsel bizness appears to be a bit more complex than what everyone is reporting.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/opm/2018/10/trump-names-omb-deputy-to-replace-pon-as-opm-director/
#3357218 at 2018-10-06 02:25:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4254: "DO NOT LOOK HERE [CHINA]"
Trump fired director of federal personnel (OPM) Jeff Pon. Replaced with Margaret Weichert
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/410155-trump-ousts-federal-personnel-director?amp&__twitter_impression=true
#3354928 at 2018-10-05 23:58:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4251: "And so it begins.."
Office of Personnel Management Director Out, White House Says
Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon resigned on Friday, according to a White House official who declined to describe his reasoning.
The White House announced Friday afternoon that Margaret Weichert has been appointed as the acting OPM director. The official was unsure if the president intends to nominate a permanent director, but a White House statement noted that Weichert was confirmed by the Senate to her current post as deputy OPM director for budget.
Pon is the latest in a long line of senior Trump administration or White House officials to be fired or resign. President Donald Trump's senior-level turnover rate is the highest in the modern era, according to several experts who track executive branch staffing.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/office-of-personnel-management-director-out-white-house-says
#1637555 at 2018-06-05 07:46:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2059: "For Baker" Edition
Trump's war on the Washington bureaucracy
Bill Valdez fired two people during his 20 years as a manager in the federal workforce.
One went quietly after an instance of undisputed misconduct. The other, accused of doing almost no work, refused to leave and used entrenched civil service protections to stay on the federal payroll for another eight years, claiming discrimination, disability, and unfair treatment.
Such long goodbyes have proved so arduous and frustrating that many managers just give up, essentially resigning their ability to manage their staff. But they are about to become much less common, as President Trump signed three executive orders last month gutting rules that allow bad workers to prevent legitimate firings, and ending lucrative perks for the labor unions that helped put them in place.
rump's sweeping reforms target union power. He is curbing subsidized work hours and free office space unions. This is the biggest splash yet in his promised effort to obliterate bureaucratic obstacles that have made the government in Washington a warehouse for many lazy and incompetent workers.
And Trump is eager to take on more and bigger reforms, members of the administration say.
"We're not kicking the can down the road. We have a president who actually wants this sort of change so that the federal government can be the best it can be," said Jeff Pon, who since March has led the civil service as director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Trump's recent orders alone save an estimated $100 million a year in reduced union subsidies. They are described by officials as among the most aggressive civil service changes possible without Congress passing new laws.
Yet, big though they are, they are only a fraction of a grander vision within the Trump administration to reform and refocus the federal workforce.
Most of the work is being undertaken by the OPM, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the White House Domestic Policy Council. Each is aggressively reforming the system through administrative and legislative action to make the notoriously bloated, pampered, and costly federal bureaucracy more efficient.
"If you think of [the civil service] as a seagoing vessel, you have a lot of barnacles, and growth and crust on the hull," said a White House official who is part of the team setting administration policy. The official asked not to be named in order to freely discuss the policy. "What we are trying to do is basically power-wash those barnacles off the side of the civil service so it can operate more efficiently."
Administration officials speak bullishly about comprehensive system improvements, including an ambitious update to the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. But, this being Washington, realism tempers the most extravagant hopes.
Margaret Weichert, Deputy Director of the OMB, is a leading proponent of root and branch reform, and stresses the importance of her mission. "Since 1978 there has been no major attention given to how we operate our civil service, and that's despite the fact that most of the jobs that people do today almost couldn't have been conceived of in 1978," she said.
Agencies all across the federal bureaucracy have become battlegrounds.
In March, the Department of Education unilaterally forced through a new union contract to break a negotiating impasse. At the Department of Veteran Affairs, resignations and firings are mounting after Congress passed agency-specific legislation, which the administration sees as a template for workforce-wide reform to hasten the firing of dud staff members.
https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trumps-war-on-the-washington-bureaucracy