OPM
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Office of Personnel Management.
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operations per minute.
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Slang. other people's money.
Example Sentences
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“The evidence suggests that the Office of Management and Budget, OMB, and the Office of Personnel Management, OPM, have taken advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore,” Illston said — which she said was not the case.
From Los Angeles Times
The suit names OMB Director Russell Vought and OPM Director Scott Kupor, claiming that their actions are unlawful.
From Salon
“I know that we will find new money. And it will be OPM — other people’s money,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
He said that the OPM was crafting smokescreens between itself and the layoffs to make them legal and refused to buy the line that the agency had no say in the widespread reduction in force.
From Salon
The BBC has contacted OPM for comment.
From BBC
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