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As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer.

McLaurine Pinover, communications director at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is under fire for recording and posting fashion influencer videos from her government office during work hours,

McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management, defended DOGE's mass firings as a way to boost government efficiency while using her work hours to film influencer content

The official, McLaurine Pinover, the top spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management, said she never made any money from the fashion videos filmed in her office.

McLaurine Pinover, communications director for the Office of Personnel Management, has been using her OPM office to make fashion influencer content.

A staffer in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) who repeatedly defended the DOGE purge of inefficient government workers ran a fashion influencer account from her government office — and posted videos during work hours,

A Trump administration official faced backlash for filming fashion influencer videos in her government office while overseeing federal layoffs.