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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., questions U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

DOGE could scrap identity protections for those impacted by OPM breach, senator warns

Sen. Mark Warner urged OPM’s acting director to ensure identity protection services continue for the more than 21 million individuals affected by the 2015 breach.
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, center, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Legislative Branch subcommittee, while Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel, left, and Government Publishing Office Director Hugh Halpern, right, look on. The hearing was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

GAO audits of DOGE’s ‘digital footprint’ in IT systems underway

Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told Senate lawmakers that the watchdog is examining what the group has done with data in Treasury, Social Security and OPM networks.
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Scott Kupor, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Office of Personnel Management, is sworn in at a hearing with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill on April 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

OPM nominee tells DOGE-concerned Democrats he’ll protect workers’ data

Scott Kupor pledged to do a full review of OPM practices on data privacy and data protection.
Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images via AFP)

Judge denies OPM’s motion to dismiss DOGE ‘data disclosure’ case

“The complaint adequately pleads that the DOGE Defendants ‘plainly and openly crosses a congressionally drawn line in the sand,'" the judge wrote.
An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Lawyer linked to DOGE is defending OPM mass email system lawsuit

Counsel for the plaintiffs in the case flagged Monday that an attorney who played a role in efforts to shutter the U.S. African Development Foundation is also…
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