Summary
Metadata from recent OPM memos on hiring freezes, firing, and in-person work reveals authors tied to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a plan to overhaul federal government staffing with conservative loyalists.
Notable contributors include Noah Peters, linked to controversial legal cases, and James Sherk, who designed the “Schedule F” worker reclassification to ease federal employee firings.
Critics say the memos reflect Trump-aligned efforts to reshape the government.
Project 2025 authors have been integrated into Trump’s administrations, despite his denial of involvement.
OPM is setting up “email blasts” that go to all federal employees and I don’t think it’ll take long for this admin to treat it like Twitter.
They want to purge the chain of command of dissenters, so they want direct control/communication with every federal employee skipping entire chains of command.
Rather than orders being sent thru the chain of command (which is good for soooo many reasons) they want a direct pipeline to tell every federal employee to do something at the same time.