Reform for Results Working Group Resources
Smears, Sadism and Social Security, March 19, 2025

Memorandum Opinion reversing administration ban on transgender individuals in the military, March 19, 2025

Memorandum Opinion by United States District Court, District of Maryland, March 18, 2025

Agencies are placing reinstated employees in leave status. Judge says that violates his order., March 18, 2025

Escape from Quicksand A New Framework for Modernizing America, February 6, 2025

RIF watch: See which agencies are laying off federal workers, March 14, 2025

DOGE Is a Wakeup Call for Economists and Attorneys, March 17, 2025

Public Notice: Determination: Foreign Affairs Functions of the United States, February 21, 2025

Radical Civil Service Reform Is Not Radical Lessons for the Federal Government from the States, March 4, 2025

The Mass Removal of Probationary Federal Employees Is an Unlawful Reduction in Force, March, 2025

Reforming Federal Management: The Case for a Dedicated Department, March 17, 2025

Smarter Government: Fixing Consolidation, Modernizing Healthcare, and Transforming Procurement, March 16, 2025

Trump invokes wartime law to target Venezuelan gang and speed up deportations, March 15, 2025

Federal Budget Ax Threatens Contractors, but Could Also Be an Opportunity, March 14, 2025

Our Hamiltonian Moment, March 14, 2025

Judge orders sweeping rehiring of fired workers at 18 federal agencies, March 13. 2025

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, MArch 13, 2025

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’, March 13, 2025

Judge says Trump's mass firing of federal employees is illegal and should be stopped, March 11, 2025

What Musk Doesn’t Understand About the Civil Service, March 12, 2025

Can Elon Rebuild?, March 10, 2025

The Role of Chief Human Capital Officers: Career vs Political, March 10, 2025

GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION Key Questions to Assess Agency Reform Efforts, June2018

Executive Branch Reorganization, August 3, 2017

The President’s Reorganization Authority, July 12, 2017

A BILL To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure efficient executive reorganization, and for other purposes, February 11, 2025

Aftershocks of Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling Echo in New Trump Cases, March 10, 2025

Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness, March 7, 2025

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, March 5, 2025

What Alito’s Dissent Fails to Understand, March 6, 2025

Jed, February 6, 2025

Job Cuts Surge on DOGE Actions, Retail Woes; Highest Monthly Total Since July 2020, March 6, 2025

Memorandum Opinion, March 6, 2025

Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda, March 5, 2025

DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones, March 1, 2025

If Musk wants to find waste, here’s where he should look, March 6, 2025

Making the World Safe for Criminals, March 5, 2025

Sins of the Father, March 5, 2025

If Musk wants to find waste, here’s where he should look, March 6, 2025

Trump administration removes five immigration judges in Texas, union says, February 27, 2025

Denizens of the Deep State, February 26, 2025

Memo on 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and Compliance with Recent Executive Orders, February 28, 2025

Skilled technologists are being forced out of government, March 1, 2025

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy, February 28, 2025

Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers, February 27, 2025

VA Chief May Head Watchdog Office Probing His Own Department, February 27, 2025

The Execution of Humphrey’s Executor, February 26, 2025

The DOGE risk to fighting waste, Februry 26, 2025

Musk’s Fraudulent Fraud Squad, February 26, 2025

The "Fraud" Fraud, February 26, 2025

Memo Guidance on Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans Requested by Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative, February 26, 2025

Musk fights back as some Trump aides resist intensifying DOGE push, February 25, 2025

Board agrees to pause firings for some feds, potentially upending Trump's widespread terminations, February 25, 2025

SEA Statement on Trump Administration’s Continued Actions to Further Politicize the Senior Executive Service, February 24, 2025

A Civil Service In Crisis, February 24, 2025

Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated, February 24, 2025

Gov. DeSantis establishes Florida version of DOGE, will cut positions, audit universities, February 24, 2025

Guidance on Career Reserved SES Positions and Agency Redesignation Requests, February 24, 2025

One Word Describes Trump, February 24, 2025

How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk, February 22, 2025

Ex-ranger on how Trump’s mass government firings are affecting the National Park Service, February 21, 2025

A Parade of Horribles, November 13, 2024

Fired: Joint Chiefs Chairman, Top Navy Leader, Air Force Vice Chief, Service Judge Advocates General, February 21, 2025

Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be let go, February 22, 2025

THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE THEORY: A DANGER TO CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, May 5, 2021

The Unitary Executive: Past, Present, Future

Removal Power of the President, June 17 1789

Madison’s Constitution is Coming Undone, February 21, 2025

The Crisis of Democracy is Here: Larry Diamond on Democracy, February 20, 2025

Reductions in Force (RIFs): An Overview, February 13, 2025

Agency cuts receive little popular support February 25, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Attack on the Federal Workforce, February 20, 2025

Bills limiting the administrative state reintroduced in 119th Congress, February 20, 2025

Independent agencies targeted by Trump’s latest executive order, February 20, 2025

The Government Accountability Office’s 2025 High Risk List

Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy, February 18, 2025

Declaration of Joshua Fisher, February 17, 2025

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS, February 16, 2025

Who’s in charge of DOGE? Not Elon Musk, White House says, February 18, 2025

The Folly of Firing, February 18, 2025

ChiefHRO on Fed Gov Today with Francis Rose, February 17, 2025

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board Information Sheet No. 4 Probationary Employees

Trump administration fires thousands for ‘performance’ without evidence, in messy rush, February 17, 2025

5 USC 2301: Merit system principles, January 23, 2000

DOGE Mismanagement Principles, February 16, 2025

The 2025 Unconstitutionality Index: Exposing Congress’s Abdication Of Power, January 9, 2025

DOGE Website

Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, February 17, 2025

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS, February 16, 2025

How DOGE cutbacks could create a major backlash, February 11, 2025

Anita Dunn and SKDK: Power and influence in Biden’s Washington, March 28, 2022

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, November 10, 1975

Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO, February 14, 2025

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege, February 10, 2025

Toward a Theory of Office: Authority, Separability, Ministry, Accountability, 2023

14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk's authority at DOGE is unconstitutional, February 13, 2025

Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views, February 15, 2025

Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next, February 15, 2025

COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF, February 2, 2025

14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk's authority at DOGE is unconstitutional, February 13, 2025

18 U.S. Code § 202 - Definitions

eCFR :: 5 CFR 630.1403 -- Principles and prohibitions, February 12, 2025

Letter from Acting SG to Sen. Durbin: for-cause removal for multi-member regulatory commissions is unconstitutional; will not defend, February 12, 2025

Trump closes down federal worker buyout offer after judge lifts hold, February 13, 2025

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified, February 7, 2025

The Partnership’s Perspective on President Trump’s Executive Orders

Merit Systems Protection Board: Organization and Procedures, September 9, 2024

MSPB to update rules to make operations smoother without a quorum, September 6, 2024

Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative, February 11. 2025

Trump orders agencies to plan for widespread layoffs and attrition-based hiring, February 11, 2025

GSA Memo Orders Cancellation Or Justification Of ‘Non-Essential’ Consulting Contracts, February 7, 2025

One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands., February 11, 2025

ELIMINATING THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE INSTITUTE, February 10, 2025

Tracking Trump’s court wins and losses over executive orders, actions, February 10, 2025

This Is How Democrats Can Counter Elon Musk, February 7, 2025

What to do on the day after?, February 7, 2025

Federal judge in Maryland blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order, February 5, 2025

New OPM memo defending legality of Deferred Resignation program, February 4, 2025

Request to GAO on Musk and the Treasury, February 4, 2025

The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”, February 3, 2025

The Damage Trump Is Doing, February 3, 205

More than 1,100 EPA employees warned of immediate termination, February 1, 2025

Federal Workers Ordered to Remove Gender Identity From Email Signatures, January 31, 2025

Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’, February 3, 2025

Here’s what could get more expensive with Trump’s new tariffs, February 1, 2025

Trump’s Test of the Constitution, February 1, 2025

Trump removes Rohit Chopra as director of CFPB, February 1, 2025

Karen Bass Was Elected for Her Experience. Right Now, L.A. Wants More, February 1, 2025

FBI considers mass purge of potentially hundreds of agents involved in Trump investigations, January 31, 2025

Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system, January 31, 2025

President Trump’s Executive Orders and Presential Memoranda: Key Questions to Ask, January 30, 2025

Trump’s Fusillade of Tyrannical Orders, January 30, 2025

It’s a Scam! It’s a Purge! It’s a Scam *and* a Purge, January 30, 2025

Federal workers decry Trump attempt to force mass resignations as ‘cruel joke’, January 29, 2025

With a new home for DOGE in the White House, here's what you need to know, January 29, 2025

Vast carelessness, January 29, 2025

Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos, January 28, 2025

Charges of "malicious compliance" by public servants, January 28, 2025

Public Health Preparedness: HHS and Jurisdictions Have Taken Some Steps to Address Challenging Workforce Gaps, January 29, 2025

Tuskegee Airmen curriculum removal a ‘rumor,’ Air Force says: Britt blames ‘malicious compliance’ , January 28, 2025

Trump reportedly will offer buyouts to all 2 million federal workers, January 28, 2025

White House incentivizes federal workers to resign, January 28, 2025

A New Era Begins, January 22, 2025

Trump’s Executive Orders

Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers, January 28, 2025

Guidance on Implementing President Trump’s Executive Order titled, “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce”, January 27, 2025

New Schedule F guidance shows the Trump White House is rearing for a fight , January 27, 2025

Trump administration testing system to message all federal workers, January 24, 2025

President Trump and The Civil Service: Day 1 , January 23, 2025

Ousted career execs at DOJ are considering options after being given vague rationale for firings , January 23, 2025

D.C. Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plan to Pause Federal Aid Spending, January 28, 2025

Trump Moves to Fire Members of EEOC and NLRB, Breaking with Precedent, January 28, 2025

Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters, Mc Kinsey & Company Report, May 19, 2020

White House Pauses All Federal Grants, Sparking Confusion, January 20, 2025

How Will Trump’s Executive Orders Change Government? January 21, 2025

A Guide to the First-Day Executive Actions on the Federal Workforce, January 21, 2025

Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, January 20, 2025

Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, January 20, 2025

Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce, January 20, 2025

Trump Forced Vivek Ramaswamy Out of DOGE for Being Too Irritating, January 20, 2025

Presidential Actions

Memorandum on Seeking Total Probationary Employee Headcount/names and Refreshing on the Use of Administrative Leave During Agency/component Restructuring or Elimination, January 20, 2025
Memorandum on Expanding Schedule C During the Transition Phase, January 20, 2025

Hiring Freeze, January 20, 2025

Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government, January 20, 2025

President Trump’s America First Priorities, January 20, 2025

Wall Street Journal op-ed: 'Government and officials need only be competent’, May 21, 1996

Federal Hiring: OPM Needs to Improve Management and Oversight of Hiring Authorities, August 02, 2016