An agency watchdog this month reported that even though Congress has widely panned the Trump administration’s plan to merge the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration, officials are still examining ways to implement portions of the proposal without legislation, and they still lack documentation to justify the changes.
As part of an annual report, dated Nov. 6 but published last week, outlining “top management challenges” at OPM, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General for the second year in a row listed the proposal to send most of OPM’s functions to GSA and its policy shop to the Executive Office of the President as an “environmental” challenge.