Tag #Federal Workforce Restructuring

What immediate impacts resulted from DOGE's actions at the GSA, and what does this reveal about the broader goals of the initiative?

A team at IBM, managing HR data for over 500,000 federal employees, received a request for "read-only" access to the GSA's 14,000 employee records, despite GSA already having "read and write" access. This unusual request, later withdrawn, fueled suspicion surrounding President Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to downsize the federal workforce, shrouded in secrecy and criticized by Democrats for lack of transparency.