From outside the Department of Labor this afternoon:

... remembered history." His reduction methodology is also explained in detail. Devine was responsible for cutting grant funding, and he worked to remove abortions from federal employee insurance coverage.

No wonder Donald Devine is an author of Project 2025.

... recently fired workers might be hired by the Defense Department, where 20,000 jobs were expected to open at a time of employee reductions across the federal government.

This might be a good time to do a keyword search for "restructuring" in the Project 2025 pdf, idk.

... wrote this article as a student, about Devine's OPM nomination. Devine acknowledged cutbacks aimed at "government efficiency," noting that OPM has a "direct managerial effect" over the federal bureaucracy.

After Reagan fired 11,500 air traffic controllers in 1981, Devine suggested that the...

Devine, a staunch Reagan supporter, was appointed to "to study OPM from top to bottom and make recommendations."

A few months later, in February of 1981, Devine was nominated by President Reagan to head OPM. In this Diamondback article from February 16, 1981, David Simon (yep, The Wire, etc)...

..."Prohibition is back."

On October 29, 1980, less than a week before Reagan was elected, Devine wrote an op-ed in the Diamondback titled "A time for action." It's worth reading.

A month after being elected, President Reagan appointed Devine to head the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)...

After the Campus Senate passed a regulation banning smoking in classrooms in 1979, Donald Devine continued smoking while teaching, claiming to be unaware of the ban. Devine quit smoking while teaching within a week, saying, "The Puritans have won and chased us evil smokers from the classroom...

...ran again, this time to chair the party, and he was again rejected by the Republican state central committee. In defeat, Devine said, "The Maryland Republican party is in poor condition," attributing his defeat to icy road conditions that prevented Eastern Shore delegations from attending.

In 1978, Devine ran for MD state comptroller against Louis Goldstein and lost by a lot, returning to teaching at UMD after losing. This article highlights his campaign and some of his political views, which I'd say are aligned with some of the overarching aims of Project 2025.

In 1979, Devine...

"...and the other was interested in supporting Reagan."

This is coming from a future author of Project 2025. Also, please note the poorly-clipped article above.

Moving on, on October 12, 1977, Donald Devine was on a symposium on the Bakke case, where he opposed quotas.

...needs as opposed to political action."

Quick editorial note that free markets require political action. Moving on.

On August 23, 1976, Devine was interviewed after attending the Republican National Convention for the third time, saying, "It was pretty much like all the others," adding...

...At the orientation meeting, YAF members tried to censor Argus, another student newspaper, and YAF chairman, Dave Havelka, argued that SGA financial support for the Black Student Union's Black tutoring plan is an "instance of abuse," and a tutoring program should be available for "all students."

..."which economic system do you think is best for the country?", and "do you sympathize with campus protestors?"

On September 22, 1970, the Young Americans for Freedom held an orientation meeting in the Stamp Student Union. Donald Devine spoke on "Conservatism--philosophy, theory, principles."...

...and that's when I feel like I found something interesting. Of all the mentions of "personnel management," found in Project 2025, many of them telling and chilling, one stood out to me in the authors' section: Donald Devine. Donald Devine coauthored Section 1.3 of P25: "Central Personnel Agencies: