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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

2:57 PM · Jan 27, 2025

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Molly White

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Noah Peters is the true author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo providing guidance on the Schedule F executive order. Peters also authored the memo exploiting loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments.

Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments.1 Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.

$pdfinfo OPM\ Memorandum\ re\ Schedule\ Policy\ Career\ Guidance\ 01-27-2025.pdf Subject: Correspondence on official letterhead Author: Peters, Noah Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Mon Jan 27 07:48:43 2025 EST ModDate: Mon Jan 27 07:48:43 2025 EST$

$pdfinfo Memo\ Lifting\ Caps\ on\ TTCs\ 1-20-2025.pdf Subject: Correspondence on official letterhead Author: Peters, Noah Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Mon Jan 20 16:09:32 2025 EST ModDate: Mon Jan 20 17:12:25 2025 EST$

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Molly White

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As far as I can tell, Peters’ role has in the administration has not been officially announced. However, as far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending him for a position in Trump’s second administration.

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Molly White

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James Sherk authored the joint OMB/OPM memo on return to office implementation plans and the joint memo authorizing the federal civilian hiring freeze.

James Sherk authored the joint Office of Management and Budget and OPM memo (archive) on return to office implementation plans. The guidance in the memo echoes a November 20, 2024 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlining their “Doge Plan”, where they wrote: “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome”.5 The memo has earned criticism from the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which expressed that the directive would “undermine” the government’s effectiveness by limiting their ability to attract talented employeees and maintain continuity of operations in emergencies.6 Sherk also authored the joint OMB and OPM memo (archive) providing guidance on the federal civilian hiring freeze — another effort towards the goal of slashing the size of the federal workforce.

$pdfinfo Joint\ OMB\ OPM\ Memorandum\ re\ Return\ to\ Office\ Implementation\ Plans\ 1-27-2025.pdf Author: James Sherk Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Mon Jan 27 07:31:19 2025 EST ModDate: Mon Jan 27 07:31:19 2025 EST$

$pdfinfo OMB-OPM\ Hiring\ Freeze\ 01\ 20\ 2025\ 1201pm.pdf Author: James Sherk Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Tue Jan 21 12:01:38 2025 EST ModDate: Tue Jan 21 12:01:38 2025 EST$

Trump has denied or downplayed links to Project 2025. These documents show that implementation is well underway, with designated personnel quietly drafting policies that are being publicly attributed to heads of federal agencies.

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Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters

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Molly White

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Update: The OPM has now scrubbed the PDF metadata. However, the archived copies linked from my website contain the original metadata if you wish to verify.

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Molly White

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From r/fednews: (unverified, obviously)

r/fednews u/Throwaway918284.5h OPM employee here, we are not the bad guys HR I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM. I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. OPM has The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes

Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. < Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The

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@centienceio

so the people in charge of the office of personnel management dont know how to scrub pdf metadata thats pretty wild noah peters and james sherk having links to the heritage foundation and project 2025 is also interesting

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Physiocrates

@BTCTalks

Ya. Project 2025 is real. You didn’t know we were lying during the campaign?

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Uubzu v3

@uubzu

Still can’t believe you fell for it

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In Defense of the Second Amendment

So?

Excellent. Love them

What an honor to be linked to the Heritage Foundation

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Bryan Dossey

@bryan_dossey

When i. The deep state they have completely taken over and have posted on several occasions their intent to resist the administration, they have found they are no longer needed. Because they never were in the first place.

Right, but nobody cares.

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Austin Ruse

@AustinRuse

So what? The work continues.

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STANG: EVIL INDUSTRIALIST

@hydromerchant

You stupid mother fuckers ahahaha

Yes. We know.

So what. We won.

Wait so your flex is that your side intentionally hides who writes policy documents?

Mike Shelby | Do Your Area Study

@grayzoneintel

God bless Noah Peters and James Sherk.

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stranger

@strangerPRMR

Like 90% of conservatives in the US have links to Heritage. It has been the nexus of conservative thought since Reagan.

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Knight of the Realm Protector of the Weak

@LibertyJack1776

Yea we took a page out of the liberal playbook and lied Trust me MAGA knew Trump was gonna do 90% of what project 2025 is.

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Angelica Reed

@Angelica_Reed1

remember how they always denied that Project 2025 was Trumps plan? whoever bought that shit must feel rly fking stupid.

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Louis Montoya

@montoyalouis1

Has there been any policy you’ve seen that bans abortion? The answer is no. Because that’s all you libs care about.

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John

@jwk8109

That is great! Wonderful news. Trump is moving the ball forward.

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Rick

@upsafeguard

OMG...and project 2025 just appointed a gay Sec of Treasury and he owns Bitcoin and he married to a man and they are raising a family...what will we do..

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MAGA Oracle

@MAGAOracle

Trump was talking schedule F back in 2020. Do your research

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Rosebud Kane

@tonyapc42

"The people that won the election are running the government!!!"

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ThePoliticalViolin

@vbbernard

Woop woop! Truth comes out!!! Bravo!!! Thank you Kind and Generous God for all your love and care! Blessed be God forever!!! Dearest Friends and Enemies, Call your state representatives and demand them to call for a #VotetoFireMikeJohnson and demand a #NewSpeakerNow! We the

based lfgggg

Great news.

You have a cute smile but the shaved side of your head is doing you no favors, love

We lied

What’s the problem with the heritage foundation? Nothing

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Mr. Bubbles

@MrBubbles1969

Elections have consequences. Republicans won. Cope.

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What links, specifically, do they have to the heritage foundation?

Ben Mumma

@MummaLabs

Oh no, only two??? We need a lot more!

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Pierre Blanchet

@PierreGBlanchet

Damn that is so funny

No one cares

Great news. Glad to see the awesome Project 2025 getting some play. I was worried Trump would dump it. It’s great stuff.

And so...

Oh no the government is gonna be more efficient and career civil servants will have to work hard to keep their jobs again Ohhh the humanity!

Ellie likes data

@ellim992

They forget frequently.

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Ellie likes data

@ellim992

Oct 21, 2024

The Heritage Foundation doesn't just write policy: They commit fraud and manufacture evidence used by Republicans in Congress, in courts, briefs to SCOTUS, and by right-wing media. The scam is sloppy, and they often leave their names on it.

(This hasn't been reported on.) /

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Brandon | Bitcoin Maximalist

@ran_the_numbers

Great news, Molly. When I voted for Trump, I was hoping for Project 2025. It was disappointing when he publicly distanced himself from it.

Quelle surprise

SuspiciousObserver#117

@URtheirProduct

The Horror. The Horror.

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Maybe next time keep source of info quiet so not to alert folks to scrub?

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Doc scottmac

@scottmac1955

Post it up for all to see.

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A Savory Quiche

@0xQuiche

You ever thing for a second that perhaps they don’t care if you know who they are? They’re doing exactly what they said they would do. It’s a leftist tactic to hide behind anonymity

Oh no. Well, anyway

Only criminals scrub or bleach their tracks. Winning!!!

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A_W33

@AdamW333

This must be painful sweetie.

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LK Preserve

@LKPreserve

Thank you. Not legal to run this setup. Power being centralized w/ monied interests and WH. Hence the unqualified cabinet nominees aka bozos. People trust Trump but he can’t make all these decisions

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Usha Vance Fan Account

@UshaFanAccount

Sorry we aren’t doing “links to” anymore, say what you mean.

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Walter Right

@WalterRight_x2

You still aren’t seething enough about the historic ass beating America gave your communist regime on November 5th, Molly. I need you looking a bit more like this guy.

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Son of the South

@xviidigit

So what, it’s over. You lost!

…so?

Not a story.

This sounds made up. The Metadata is in the Word doc not the PDF. And "ties to" isn't very interesting without specific dates and who they were working for.

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The Dissident Wingman

@miami_priest

Oh no.

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Alleghany Geezer

@BGM328ii

Good! Project 2025 was an excellent piece of work and should be administered to progressive Dems with vigor! Preferably without lubricarion.

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Ken

@danic_98

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Ken

@danic_98

Oct 3, 2024

I hope if Trump wins he invokes project 2025 to own the libs.

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Rich Horton

@PurePopPub

The horror of Republicans implementing policies advocated by [checks notes] Republicans.

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Calamity Jen

@realjenx

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Comfortably Smug

@ComfortablySmug

Dec 5, 2024

Nothing is funnier to me than tricking journos and Libs into thinking we weren't going to do Project 2025 We are going to do all the Project 2025 things Every last one x.com/JStein_WaPo/st…

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Michelle Barrett

@muchtoocommon

Just wait until you see what's in Project 2026.

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TN_Poke

@tn_poke2002

Maybe they simply don’t care?

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Raising Civic Literacy From the Dead

@raisingcivlit

Sound like good folks.

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Yay?

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theUnyieldingHierophant

@SGibbs99029

I’m not seeing a problem

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Nyarlarrythotep

@Ladlestein

Ah yes, the OPM, who would have thought

en.wikipedia.org

Office of Personnel Management data breach - Wikipedia

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Roadette: I'm going forward.

@Roadette33

Yikes, didya have to tell 'em?

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Alexander Riccio (@co2trackers)

@ariccio

LMAO This absolutely checks out. They probably fired anybody who had a clue what that would be.

How cool is that!

Guess what? Nobody gives a fuck, toots Have a nice day

CR Volcano

@BudeJim

Cool - thanks for letting us know who the good guys are

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Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez

@tha_highlander

Are you telling me that a conservative administration used policy papers from a conservative think tank?

Judge Judy

@burnsweneyepee

The person who advised to get that haircut should be exposed.

Sour Patch Lyds

@sourpatchlyds

But have u tried crying about it?

Oh no, the oogedy boogedy Heritage Foundation

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Coddled affluent professional

@feelsdesperate

Yeah we know. We lied and you fell for it. Soon

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BowTiedGriptoad

@BowTiedGriptoad

Keep up the good work Noah and James.

Paulus Johannes III

@zinemagilea

Great - he is one of the good ones

Trevor Trust

@TrustedTrevor

That’s fantastic news, Molly. Thank you for sharing.

Brumfield Beau

@Boflys

You dumb leftists are the only ones that have a problem with 2025. It’s a solid plan. Nothing crazy at all about it.

Who cares?

Project 2025 is gonna be so lit!!

It stinks!

Correlation is not corroberation. Regardless, no one cares.

John McClane

@DetJMcClane

Or they don’t care if you know who the authors were? Think of that?

V B

@b_vplants

These were the good parts. Now other parts are tyrannical. When you get to them, I will protest with you.

Mike Moore

@tigertunesusa

It’s funny that women who you assumed would be in arms about this are

in the replies. Love to see it.

I don't care.

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You should do something about this

HUZZ NATIONALIST

@h1bgeorgefloyd

Awesome. This is what I voted for.

Cool story, I was always on board with Project 2025. With the leftist outcry against it, it was bound to contain some great ideas!

Good

Uh oh we pulled a sneaky sneak ok you

No one cares. The election is over.

Humanfiles Media

@HumanfilesMedia

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This is a bunch of useless hot garbage

thanks for sharing

Ben Burman

@Benbburman

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Maybe they’re not trying to hide it. Unlike those in the previous admin, some people believe in being transparent with the public. That never crossed your mind, huh?

SamMcGWeb

@SamMcGWeb

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Ridiculous, two men from a think tank might get positions within the administration and therefore the infamous project 25 will be secretly implemented.