OPM asked federal agencies to compile lists of workers to consider terminating, reflecting DOGE's goals to cut the government workforce.

White House instructs all government departments and agencies in the executive branch to end remote work arrangements.

Earlier hiring freezes actually made government services less efficient, the Government Accountability Office found.

President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.