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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 paperwork — roughly 10,000 applications per month — has been processed 230 feet underground in a former limestone mine roughly an hour north of Pittsburgh.

Kupor shed a light late last year on the cavernous Boyers, Pennsylvania, facility, noting that "it’s a place where 600 dedicated federal employees process thousands of retirement claims every month — by hand, on paper, in a system that feels like a time capsule from the 1970s."

Kupor noted further that the mine "houses about 26,000 file cabinets filled with manilla envelopes, cardboard boxes, and about 400 million pieces of paper, a true testament to the scale and complexity of federal retirement processing."

While impressive, Kupor said that the mine "is a microcosm of a bigger, more endemic challenge within the federal government: outdated systems and processes that have not kept up with modern technology and that lag in terms of operational efficiency."

The process, until recently, entailed:

• prospective retirees filling out their retirement paperwork on paper;
• the routing of the paper applications by mail to the HR departments of the retirees' respective agencies;
• the routing, again, of the paper applications to the respective payroll providers; and
• the shipment of pallets loaded with the completed applications to the Boyers facility.

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Under the leadership of U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia — the Airbnb co-founder who joined the Department of Government Efficiency last year — the OPM attempted to tackle what Kupor characterized as a "50-year problem of epic proportions."

Deliverance

The OPM announced the "Last Day of Paper" on Wednesday and the official end of paper retirement processing for over 95% of federal retirement applications.

Moving forward, virtually all retirement applications will be submitted and processed electronically through the OPM's Online Retirement Application. ORA has already processed in excess of 155,000 retirement applications over the past year.

"Today we’re closing the book on one of the federal government’s oldest paper processes," Kupor said in a statement.

"For decades, retirement applications were literally mailed around the country before reaching OPM. That’s over," continued the OPM director. "By moving retirement online, we’re delivering faster decisions, better service, and greater transparency for federal employees while modernizing an essential government function."

Elon Musk, long a champion of greater efficiencies in the U.S. government, told Fox News Digital, "Now people can retire as soon as they want, instead of waiting six months for paper to be carried into a mine."

Kupor thanked Musk "for his vision on this project," Gebbia "for his technical leadership," and the OPM members who made it happen, quipping, "So long, Michael J Scott," in reference to the fictional paper salesman in "The Office."

The OPM is still in the process of digitizing hundreds of millions of historical retirement records.

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The previously agreed upon officer increase for the New York Police Department has been scrapped by Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in the city’s final budget proposal amid pressure from his socialist base.

The $125.8 billion budget was originally slated to include $70 million to fund the addition of 580 NYPD officers, as outlined in Mamdani's executive budget proposal released in May.

'We are calling on Mayor Mamdani to reverse this proposed expansion of the NYPD.'

Mamdani has pivoted in the weeks since.

“I've been talking to all agency heads about ways to find savings, and [Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch] and I were able to identify ways to keep the NYPD head count at the originally authorized 35,000 while also meeting all of our crime-fighting needs and implementing the new programs that were announced earlier this year," Mamdani said during a press conference Tuesday.

The night before the final budget vote, City Council Speaker Julie Menin (D) said she received a call from the mayor informing her of his agreement with Tisch to cut the officer increase from the budget.

“I disagree with that decision. ... I do believe we need those officers,” Menin said, citing concerns over increasing rape, felony assault, and subway crime numbers.

“We are going to fight for it now,” she added.

Menin did note that the NYPD budget increased by $300 million for the fiscal year.

The NYC Democratic Socialists of America, of which Mamdani is a member and with whom he holds close political ties, has been avidly calling on the mayor to follow through on his campaign promise to keep the NYPD head count flat.

“We are calling on Mayor Mamdani to reverse this proposed expansion of the NYPD and invest the money in community safety programs instead," NYC-DSA said on June 12.

The proposed head count increase "runs counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him,” the group continued, adding, “When police serve as default first responders, New Yorkers are placed in harm’s way.”

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, the NYPD said, “It is no secret that the city is facing serious financial challenges, and the mayor has asked every agency head to find efficiencies. ... For now, the department is able to police effectively with the budgeted head count we have, driving crime down month after month. That head count and our hiring plan gives us the flexibility we need to maintain that balance over the next fiscal year."

NYPD funding had been at the forefront throughout last year’s mayoral election as Mamdani’s controversial X posts regarding police funding resurfaced, including one where he called the force “wicked” and “corrupt” and advocated for its defunding and dismantling.

In another post, he said, “We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. ... What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD."

Council member Tiffany Cabán, a democratic socialist and chair of the council’s Progressive Caucus, backed the mayor’s decision.

“I am proud to have worked closely with the mayor and public safety advocates to ensure there was no increase to the NYPD’s headcount in this budget. Every dollar we spend on policing and incarceration means money we can’t spend on housing, mental health care, substance use treatment, and economic stability.”

The Fiscal Year 2027 budget was officially adopted by the City Council on Tuesday and signed into law the following day by Mamdani, making it the largest budget in city history.

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