{"id":666,"date":"2026-05-26T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:06:23","slug":"trump-administration-proposes-having-all-federal-workers-sign-ndas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration proposes having all federal workers sign NDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<button><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/button><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Trump administration is proposing requiring all federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements to prevent internal leaks to media organizations.<\/li>\n<li>The draft measure defines confidential information broadly to include internal operations, personnel matters and sensitive pre-decisional material not yet publicly available.<\/li>\n<li>Officials cite unauthorized disclosures about the US operation in Venezuela and the leak of personal information of thousands of ICE personnel as justification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The White House is preparing a government-wide nondisclosure agreement aimed at curtailing federal workers\u2019 sharing of \u201cconfidential government information,\u201d as it seeks to stop internal leaks to media organizations.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=664\">Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with mental disorders. The number has been growing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The , posted to the Federal Register on Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management, says the NDA is intended to track existing and new federal employees\u2019 agreement to \u201csafeguard non-public, confidential or proprietary information, created or obtained through their official duties.\u201d The proposal is scheduled to be published on Wednesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Agencies have the option of using the NDA, according to the draft notice, which will be subject to a 30-day comment period after it is published.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The controversial move is the latest step in the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to crack down on the dissemination of its internal planning and data. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s office last year started mandating that Pentagon officials sign NDAs before being read in on projects, initiatives and other work products, CNN has reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            President Donald Trump is also upending the federal workforce, which he sees as an impediment to implementing his agenda.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=654\">When Iran thumbs its nose at the ceasefire, the Trump administration shrugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The draft cites federal workers\u2019 providing the New York Times and Washington Post with \u201cunauthorized disclosures\u201d in advance of the US raid on Venezuela earlier this year. News organizations delayed publishing the information \u201cto avoid endangering US troops,\u201d the draft said. (The New York Times\u2019 executive editor has said the paper did not have verified details about the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, nor did it withhold publishing a story at the Trump administration\u2019s request.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Also, a federal staffer this year disclosed the personal information \u2014 including names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and job titles \u2014 of about 4,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, putting their safety at risk, according to the draft.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The draft proposal takes a wide view of confidential information, defining it as \u201cinternal agency operations, personnel matters, procurement processes, or any sensitive, pre-decisional or deliberative material that is not currently publicly available and should not be disclosed under applicable law.\u201d Such disclosures \u201cdisrupt agency operations and erode public trust.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The measure would not create \u201cnew substantive restrictions\u201d on workers and would preserve the rights of whistleblowers, according to the draft proposal.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=650\">During a hurricane, Asheville seniors formed a pod that may help them age in place<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is preparing a government-wide nondisclosure agreement aimed at curtailing federal workers\u2019 sharing of \u201cconfidential government information,\u201d as it seeks to stop internal leaks to media organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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