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‘Feeling of dread’ spreads across federal workforce as second Trump term looms
CNN ^ | Sun November 10, 2024 | Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh, Gabe Cohen and Tami Luhby

Posted on 11/10/2024 1:00:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Much of the federal workforce is on edge and bracing itself for the likelihood its ranks will be purged when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Trump, who has derided civil servants as agents of the “deep state,” promised on the campaign trail to reinstate a 2020 executive order known as Schedule F, giving him the power to commence mass firings of nonpartisan federal employees who might spoil Trump’s partisan plans.

“The objective is to create space to put loyalists in what were, what are still, career civil service positions,” former Trump appointee Ronald Sanders – who resigned over Trump’s politicization of the federal workforce – told CNN. Sanders added it is “problematic” if schedule F is being used to reinforce and maintain political loyalty.

Trump’s loyalist vision is already having a profound chilling effect on career employees, some of whom told CNN they plan to stay into the new year – but don’t know what’s next beyond that.

“I would say there is a general feeling of dread among everyone,” one Energy Department employee told CNN.

In his first term, Trump sidelined and ridiculed civil servants and service members, silenced government offices and stifled scientific research. Many workers quit; others stuck it out, hopeful that the 2020 election would bring a new boss in the White House.

Now they face another four years of Trump – a term that by his own account will be worse for the government workforce than his first.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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1 posted on 11/10/2024 1:00:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

If they are productive, do something useful and non-partisan in how they do their jobs, they have nothing to worry about.


2 posted on 11/10/2024 1:02:52 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; CottonBall; JudyinCanada

Freedom is when the gov’t fears the people.

Tyranny is when the people fear the gov’t.


3 posted on 11/10/2024 1:03:04 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

For the good of the country, thousands of these dead weight fedgov bureaucrats need to be eliminated.

They’re choking the country off!


4 posted on 11/10/2024 1:03:53 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They can travel to Canada and enroll in their MAID program.


5 posted on 11/10/2024 1:04:12 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Get a hair cut and get a real job.

Jobs should become available as the deportations progress.


6 posted on 11/10/2024 1:04:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s what elections like this are for


7 posted on 11/10/2024 1:05:13 PM PST by stanne
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To: MinorityRepublican

When the illegals self-deport, lots of construction and custodial jobs will open up.


8 posted on 11/10/2024 1:05:36 PM PST by Marko413
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CNN - the most rusted name in news


9 posted on 11/10/2024 1:05:47 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Paladin2

Haha beat me to it


10 posted on 11/10/2024 1:06:22 PM PST by Marko413
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yeah, they all FA’d


11 posted on 11/10/2024 1:06:29 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

So about 20% are safe


12 posted on 11/10/2024 1:06:54 PM PST by Fledermaus (I hate yo say I told you so, but I told you so! Trump 2024!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“If they are productive, do something useful and non-partisan in how they do their jobs, they have nothing to worry about.”

In general, they are lazy partisan hacks, which is where the dread comes in.


13 posted on 11/10/2024 1:08:11 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

WINNING!!!!!


14 posted on 11/10/2024 1:08:41 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: MinorityRepublican

15 posted on 11/10/2024 1:09:23 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: MinorityRepublican

I know for a FACT that the higher ups in the IRS HATE Trump from way back. Send one of your staff to talk to me, Trump. The person has to prove they came from you, or no information.


16 posted on 11/10/2024 1:09:24 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to descalation of tho it for you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The RIF is coming.


17 posted on 11/10/2024 1:10:00 PM PST by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The feeling of dread is from the knowledge that Elon Musk and the DOGE (Department Of Government Efficiency) is coming after their meaningless wasteful jobs.


18 posted on 11/10/2024 1:10:09 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A lot of entitled Webees need to get converted to wontbees


19 posted on 11/10/2024 1:10:16 PM PST by rdcbn1
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is the kind of reporting I like to hear. I want every detail, every anti Trump tear being shed. Breaking news with new details. :)


20 posted on 11/10/2024 1:10:23 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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