The Trump administration is moving to exert more control over the federal government’s technology, turning the people who oversee that infrastructure into political appointees it can hire and fire at will.
Currently, each agency’s chief information officer is a civil servant in a nonpartisan job, known in the Office of Personnel Management as “career reserved,” which provides some protections against firings. The change, which OPM announced in a memo Tuesday, will make the roles “general,” opening them up to a wide variety of appointees. The shift is set to happen no later than Feb. 14.
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell said in the memo that the move will better align those employees with the Trump administration’s agenda.
“No longer the station of impartial and apolitical technocrats, the modern agency CIO role demands policy-making and policy-determining capabilities across a range of controversial political topics,” Ezell wrote.
The White House “rightly expects that agency CIOs will be on the front lines of articulating and implementing such policies, both within government and before the general public,” he added.
Posted by John3262005
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No longer will our IT people be chosen for their impartialness and competency is an incredible reason to state publicly
Elon Musk’s henchmen at DOGE who are actively participating in a coup include:
• Amanda Scales
• Brian Bjelde
• Riccardo Biasini
• Anthony Armstrong
• Steve Davis
• Baris Akis
• Thomas Shedd
• Edward Coristine
• Russell Vought
• Michael Peters
• Josh Gruenbaum
• Russell “Rusty” McGranahan
• Akash Bobba
• Marko Elez
• Luke Farritor
• Gautier Cole Killia
• Gavin Klieg
• Ethan Shaotran
• Nicole Hollander
• Branden Spikes
Oh no. I’ve committed a crime. Would be a shame if people copied and shared this list.