Reuters, citing two anonymous sources, reported Friday that senior career officials at the Office of Personnel Management, the governing agency for the federal workforce, have had their access to department data revoked. They lost access to the Enterprise Human Resources Integration database, which includes the dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service of government workers.
Is there anything people outside can do to help?
I am not a government employee (or a lawyer), but I would say contact your representatives immediately. Both phone calls and letters, and doubly so if your representatives are Republican. The more they get, the higher the chance of them having to do something, and getting Republicans to oppose the coup in any way will weaken the effects.
Also, make as many people aware of the situation as you can because this is largely going unnoticed by the general public, it seems.
Funny how this piece keeps getting taken down.