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The Department of Government Efficiency, originally an Elon Musk-backed effort to shrink the federal government, has disbanded with about eight months left on its charter, ending an initiative billed as a flagship of President Donald Trump's cost-cutting agenda.

Statement by Trump administration confirms longstanding suspicions that Musk-led agency is on its way out

The former managing partner of venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, weighs in on running OPM, federal layoffs, and AI.

A judge has ruled that the Trump administration's central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of thousands of probationary workers

The U.S. federal hiring system has undergone a significant transformation with the implementation of the “rule of many,” officially finalized by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in September 2025. This change replaces the longstanding “rule of three,” which limited agencies to selecting only one candidate from the top three…

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

Federal workers were ordered to email the Office of Personnel Management as part of a drive to drastically cut staff numbers

Government workers ordered back to offices five days a week on March 3 after Trump signed executive order

Grok delivered a scathing review of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tenure, asserting $135B in losses from productivity, legal issues, and service disruptions.