WASHINGTON: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer syste...
: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department’s data systems. Officials affected by the move can still log on and access functions such as email but can no longer see the massive datasets that cover every facet of the federal workforce.
Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, said the actions inside OPM raised concerns about congressional oversight at the agency and how Trump and Musk view the federal bureaucracy. The new team at OPM includes software engineers and Brian Bjelde, who joined Musk’s SpaceX venture in 2003 as an avionics engineer before rising to become the company’s vice president of human resources. Bjelde’s role at OPM is that of a senior adviser.
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