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Scott Kupor’s confirmation as OPM director comes as the Trump administration continues efforts to significantly scale down the size of the federal workforce.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the federal government’s HR agency, which has become central to his efforts to overhaul agencies’ workforces. Scott Kupor, a longtime venture capital executive, was confirmed as director of the Office of Personnel Management in a 49-46 vote .
New data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management shows the federal workforce shrank by only around 23,000 jobs so far during Trump's second term.
At first a response to extreme weather, the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act prepared agencies for a different type of disaster years later: the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday reported having 2.3 million people on federal payrolls in March, almost unchanged from prior months despite the Republican's efforts to shrink the size of government.
The court directs substantial umbrage at the government for the policy due to the "decades" the defendants "provided a wide swath of health-related resources to the public free of charge."
By the time the hiring freeze lifts this fall, agencies will have been largely unable to hire new federal employees or fill vacant roles for nine months.
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