Office of Personnel Management CFO Erica Roach steps down from role – Washington Examiner
Erica Roach, the Chief Financial Officer of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has stepped down from her role amid significant changes within the agency. Reports suggest that Roach was offered a different position by trump governance officials but chose to resign instead. As CFO, she was responsible for overseeing more than $1 trillion in funds. Her departure is part of a broader trend of high-profile resignations and dismissals aimed at altering the federal workforce under President Trump’s administration.
The OPM has initiated an offer allowing federal employees to resign with financial incentives, aiming to reduce the size of the government by about 5% to 10%. However, this offer has faced legal challenges from several labor unions, raising concerns regarding privacy and the potential implications of the resignations. The deadline for employees to accept this offer has created urgency, with the pace of resignations reportedly increasing as the deadline approaches.
Office of Personnel Management CFO Erica Roach steps down from role
The chief financial officer for the Office of Personnel Management was reportedly pushed out, as the agency seeks to get a significant number of federal employees to agree to a resignation offer.
Erica Roach, who had been the OPM’s CFO, was offered a different position in the agency by Trump administration officials but decided to resign from her role instead, according to a report from CNN. As chief financial officer, she was responsible for managing more than $1 trillion in funds, per the outlet.
Roach’s departure is the latest in a slate of high-profile departures, either through resignation or dismissal, as President Donald Trump’s administration aims to make significant changes to the federal workforce.
The OPM has offered a resignation offer, which would pay federal employees through Sept. 30 in exchange for them to resign from their job, as it seeks to reduce the size of the government. The offer, spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk, has a deadline of Thursday at 11:59 p.m.
The offer was sent out by the Office of Personnel Management last week with a goal of seeing 5% to 10% of the federal workforce resign. While the number of people accepting the offer started slower than officials wanted, the pace of workers accepting the offer reportedly picked up ahead of the deadline at the end of Thursday.
Roach’s exit from OPM also comes as the agency faces legal challenges over privacy concerns with the new email system set up by the Trump administration and from labor unions over the resignation offers.
Several labor unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the National Association of Government Employees, have sued in a bid to pause the offer, calling it “dangerous.”
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