“The Trump administration is moving to consolidate control over the hiring and firing of federal workers, positioning a key agency to continue some of Elon Musk’s shrinking of the U.S. government as the Tesla CEO pulls back from Washington,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The effort is centralized in the Office of Personnel Management, the human-resources arm of the government.
The office, a hub of Musk’s project, has begun approving positions federal agencies want to add… That is a change; agencies have typically decided which positions they filled.”CNN: Three charts break down the scale of Trump’s federal layoffs.