2026-05-28 13:05:09 EDT / 福克斯新闻
美国人事管理局局长斯科特·库波尔表示，此举旨在允许公开对话，同时避免谈话内容被媒体报道
作者：阿什利·J·迪梅拉 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年5月28日下午1:05 EDT
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特朗普政府推动要求联邦雇员签署保密协议
美国人事管理局局长斯科特·库波尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，内部泄密正在破坏政府运作，特朗普政府正为联邦雇员推行一项新的保密协议政策。
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特朗普政府正在推进一项提案，要求各联邦机构与雇员使用标准化保密协议（NDAs），作为遏制内部讨论被泄露给媒体的全面举措之一。
“该提案正处于完整的监管流程中，因此公众可以提交通知和评论，”美国人事管理局（OPM）局长斯科特·库波尔在周三的Zoom采访中告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我们也会对所有这些意见做出回应……如果最终我们没能让民众认识到这对维护政府审慎决策的重要性，那我会感到意外。”
该提案将为联邦机构制定一份标准化保密协议模板，要求雇员确认现有保密规则。特朗普政府在委内瑞拉突袭行动泄密、移民海关执法局探员个人信息遭曝光等事件后，正加大对内部泄密的打击力度。官员表示，该政策旨在保护敏感内部讨论，但批评人士质疑此举可能削弱举报人保护和雇员言论自由。
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美国人事管理局局长表示，特朗普政府正提议要求现任联邦雇员签署保密协议，以防止内部信息泄露给媒体。（马克·希费尔贝恩/美联社）
库波尔举了一个“简单例子”说明为何需要保密协议。美国人事管理局作为联邦政府的人事机构，负责联邦雇员的人事政策和 workforce 规则。
“我今天开了个会……房间里有10个人……如果我们进行了这场对话，而其中9个人转头就给媒体打电话说‘嘿，我跟你说说我们在这场会议上讨论的内容’，那我们真的很难运营这个机构。”
“这只会让我们陷入无法运营机构的境地。你无法和团队进行合理的对话。这会将决策过程孤立起来，我认为这对任何人都没有好处，”他补充道。
联邦雇员早已被要求保护工作中获取的某些机密和敏感政府信息。美国人事管理局表示，拟议的保密协议不会对雇员言论增设新的实质性限制，而是为联邦雇员建立一个标准化流程，让他们确认现有关于机密信息的法律和监管义务。
库波尔表示，保密协议提案的目的是鼓励会议中的公开坦诚对话。
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“我们只是想避免出现这种情况：人们因为担心自己的观点会出现在第二天的报纸头版，而不敢在会议上表达意见。我认为这无助于我们代表美国人民运营机构，”库波尔说。
批评人士认为，该机构正在扩大监管范围，试图控制来自政府内部的破坏性叙事。
专攻联邦就业问题的吉尔伯特雇佣法律事务所合伙人凯文·欧文告诉《政府行政》杂志：“美国人事管理局现在正试图成为这个超级人事办公室，集中其对所有联邦雇员的管理权，表面上是按照白宫的指示行事。如今就连联邦雇员如何谈论政治相关事项都要受到管控，这是朝着实行分赃制、将公务员队伍变成白宫政治工具又迈进了一步。”
提案还明确表示，该协议将保留雇员根据联邦法律进行披露的权利，包括受保护的举报人投诉。
随着特朗普政府的政策议程已面临一系列法律挑战，库波尔表示，他预计保密协议提案也将受到审查。（安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社）
“我认为人们认为[这是]另一种解雇员工的方式，或者我们试图压制人们畅所欲言，”库波尔说。“这与事实相去甚远。人们可以想说什么就说什么。问题是，如果我们在工作中进行一场对话……我认为我们完全有理由说，你不应该基本上把原本属于审慎讨论过程的内容公之于众。”
库波尔表示，政府本应能够在不向媒体泄密的情况下开展讨论，一旦做出决定，记者可以通过《信息自由法》获取相关信息。
“人们可以向美国功绩制度保护委员会上诉等等。这就是我们如今的运作方式。我们没有剥夺任何人在其他与工作相关的不利行动中拥有的任何权利，”库波尔说。“如果你阅读保密协议，会明确写明这里不会干涉传统的举报人问题，即人们向监察长举报的权利。”
库波尔表示，他不确定这项提案是否在首届特朗普政府期间或之前几届政府中讨论过，但他认为媒体格局的迅速扩张让各机构更容易受到泄密影响。
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保密协议提案提交至《联邦公报》，援引委内瑞拉突袭行动和移民海关执法局探员个人信息遭曝光等近期事件作为该举措的理由。（约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社）
“尤其是随着社交媒体等平台的兴起，[联邦雇员]觉得他们想帮助外界了解我们的工作。这绝非意图阻止这一点。它只是旨在让我们能够在同事之间进行开放、坦诚的对话。如果人们想成为公民记者，他们可以这么做，”库波尔说。
随着特朗普政府的政策议程已面临一系列法律挑战，库波尔表示，他预计保密协议提案也将受到审查。
“不幸的是，有很多律师和机构靠专门找出特朗普政府不受欢迎的政策并提起诉讼为生。但在这件事上，我感到非常、非常安心，”他说。
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根据美国人事管理局的信息，该提案的公众意见征集截止至6月26日。
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Federal HR office pulls back curtain on sweeping NDA plan aimed at curbing government leaks
2026-05-28 13:05:09 EDT / Fox News
OPM director Scott Kupor says the goal is to allow open dialogue without conversations appearing in the press
By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News
Published May 28, 2026 1:05pm EDT
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Trump admin moves to require federal workers sign NDAs
U.S. Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor tells Fox News Digital internal leaks are undermining government operations as the Trump administration pushes a new NDA policy for federal employees.
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The Trump administration is advancing a proposal for federal agencies to use standardized nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with employees as part of a broader push to stop internal discussions from leaking to the press.
“This is going through the full regulatory process, so people can give notices and comments,” said Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director Scott Kupor to Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview on Wednesday. “We’ll respond to all those things as well… I’d be surprised, if at the end of the day, we aren’t successful in showing people that this is important for preserving deliberative decision-making in the government.”
The proposal would create a template NDA for federal agencies to use with employees, requiring workers to acknowledge existing confidentiality rules as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on internal leaks following incidents including the Venezuela raid leak and the doxing of ICE agents. Officials said the policy is meant to protect sensitive internal discussions, while critics question whether it could chill whistleblower protections and employee speech.
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The Trump administration is proposing NDAs for current federal employees to prevent internal leaks to the press, says OPM director.(Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Kupor pointed to a “simple example” of why NDAs are needed. OPM functions as the federal government’s human resources agency, overseeing personnel policy and workforce rules for federal employees.
“I had a meeting today… we had 10 people in the room… it’s really hard to run the organization if we have that conversation and then nine out of those 10 people go call the media and say, ‘hey, let me just tell you what we talked about in this conversation.’”
“It just puts us in a situation where you can’t run an organization. You can’t have a reasonable conversation with your team. It isolates decision-making to a place that I think is just not good for anybody,” he added.
Federal employees are already required to safeguard certain confidential and sensitive government information obtained through their work. OPM said the proposed NDA would not create new substantive restrictions on employee speech, but instead establish a standardized process for federal workers to acknowledge existing legal and regulatory obligations regarding confidential information.
Kupor said the proposal of NDAs is to encourage open and honest dialogue in meetings.
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“We’re just trying to avoid situations where people feel like they won’t express an opinion in a meeting because they are worried that’s going to show up on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow. I just don’t think that helps us actually run the organizations on behalf of the American people,” said Kupor.
Critics have argued the agency is expanding oversight in an effort to control damaging narratives emerging from inside the administration.
Gilbert Employment Law, which specializes in federal employment issues, partner Kevin Owen told the Government Executive that “OPM is now trying to become this super personnel office that centralizes its authority over all federal employees, ostensibly at the direction of the White House. By now controlling how federal employees are even able to communicate about matters of political concern, it’s one further step toward enacting a spoils system and making the civil service a political arm of the White House.”
The proposal also stated that the agreement would explicitly preserve employees’ rights to make disclosures authorized under federal law, including protected whistleblower complaints.
With the Trump administration already facing a series of legal challenges to its policy agenda, Kupor said he expects the NDA proposal could draw scrutiny as well.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“I think people are thinking [it’s] another way to get rid of people, or we’re trying to squelch people from saying what they want,” said Kupor. “That’s the farthest thing from the truth. People can say whatever they want. The issue is, if we’re having a conversation at work … I think it’s very reasonable for us to say you shouldn’t go basically publish what is otherwise essentially a deliberative process of conversation out there.”
Kupor said the administration should be able to achieve discussions without media leaks and, once it’s decided, journalists can FOIA the information.
“People can appeal that to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board and forward and stuff like that. That’s how we work today. We’re not taking away any rights anybody has for any other kind of workplace related adverse actions,” said Kupor. “If you read the NDAs, it’s very expressed that nothing here interferes with traditional whistleblower issues with people going to the inspector general.”
Kupor said he is unsure whether the proposal was discussed during the first Trump administration or under previous administrations but argued the rapid expansion of the media landscape has made agencies more vulnerable to leaks.
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The NDA proposal entered in the Federal Register cites recent events such as the Venezuela raid and the doxing of ICE agents as justification for the measure.(John Moore/Getty Images)
“Particularly with the rise of social media and everything else, [federal employees] feel like they want to help people outside the world, understand what we’re doing. And none of this is intended to like to stop that. It’s just intended to allow us to have an open, honest conversation among folks. And if people want to be citizen journalists, they can do that,” said Kupor.
With the Trump administration already facing a series of legal challenges to its policy agenda, Kupor said he expects the NDA proposal could draw scrutiny as well.
“Unfortunately, there are lots of lawyers and organizations who make a living out of basically finding whatever they don’t like with the Trump administration and suing. But in this case I feel very, very comfortable,” he said.
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The proposal is open for public comment on or before June 26, according to OPM.
Ashley J. DiMella reports on politics for Fox News Digital.
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