Trump agencies actually made a government process more efficient — A LOT more

The federal government is known for many things, but efficiency isn’t one of them. But now, thanks to the tireless efforts of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the DOGE, at least one process has been made easy: federal employee retirement.

In pursuit of “higher quality, faster resolution times, and enhanced efficiency,” the OPM took on the herculean challenge in September of migrating its retirement application processing operations from a mine in Pennsylvania “to a fully electronic world.”

‘By hand, on paper, in a system that feels like a time capsule from the 1970s.’

OPM Director Scott Kupor revealed on Wednesday that the challenge was successfully met — meaning greater efficiency and fewer workers having to toil underground at the Iron Mountain mine.

Quick background

For decades, federal retirement