Posted on 10/16/2017 6:59:20 PM PDT by markomalley
Employees who work at federal government agencies are continuing their trend of overwhelmingly donating to Democrats for the 2018 election cycle, records show.
Government workers shunned Donald Trump while giving generously to Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 presidential cycle, The Hill reported last October.
The publication noted that while Republicans tend to do worse with government workers, Trump received just 5 percent of all federal government donations compared to Mitt Romney's 14 percent in 2012. Government workers at 14 agencies gave a total of $2 million during the last presidential cycle with $1.9 million—or 95 percent—going to Clinton.
Despite President Trump now occupying the White House, government workers are still overwhelmingly supporting Democrats, according to a review of employee donations at a handful of agencies.
Department of Justice employees have given nearly $30,000 in contributions for the 2018 cycle to date, data that covers contributions of $200 or more from the Center for Responsive Politics shows. Of the $30,000 in contributions, $23,233 (79 percent) was given to Democrats while $4,350 (15 percent) went to Republican campaigns.
The 79 percent of DOJ employees who have given money to Democratic campaigns this cycle has dropped slightly from the 87 percent who gave to Democrats in 2016, the data shows.
Individuals at the U.S. Department of State have given $78,364 for the 2018 cycle with $74,220 of this amount given to Democrats (95 percent) and only $3,965 going to Republicans. In 2016, 93 percent of the donations from employees at the State Department ultimately ended up going to Democrats.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency workers have only contributed $9,848 this cycle, with 87 percent of the donations ($8,609) going to Democrats and 10 percent ($1,000) to Republicans. During the last election cycle, nearly $250,000 was given from EPA employees to Democrats, which constituted 96 percent of contributions from those at the agency.
At the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a total of $53,547 has been given from its employees for the 2018 cycle. Ninety percent ($47,929) has gone to Democrats while only 6 percent was donated to Republicans ($3,138).
"Government employees are, on balance, more moderate or more liberal as opposed to the general population," David Schultz, a political science professor at Hamline University, told the Hill last year of government worker contributions. "Not across the board, but in general."
Individuals at government agencies are also "more likely to believe in government as opposed to, let's say, a privatization program," Schultz added, "programs that we would view as hostile to government."
So, essentially, this is laundered tax money going to ‘Rats. Federal unions bargain for higher wages (how many federales make over $100,000 salary?), so that their workers have more discretionary income to disperse to ‘Rats, who will work hard to strengthen federal unions. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Another reason for cutting federal workers by 50%. We don’t need these enemies of liberty living high on the hog on money taken by force from the paychecks of working people. And many of these slugs do nothing but watch porn all day. Clean house, Mr. President.
All the more reason to slice the hell out of the Fed budget. Cut cut cut, esp employees. Outsource to American companies. Get rid of govt unions.
And add a % deduction to the prevailing market for each job, for the value of the security govt employees get from the Constitution (”due process rights”). No way should a govt employee’s pay equal or exceed a comparable private sector job
It should always be less
Sick.
Nothing like having a list of people who need early retirement.
Actually government salaries and other operating expenses are a very small part of the federal budget. You could zero it out and we’re still headed off the financial cliff. It’s entitlements from social security to Medicare/Medicaid to Zerocare & others too numerous to name. There’re growing, growing almost exponentially, by comparison government operating expenses are flat.
Let the automation begin.
Without entitlement control automation is irrelevant!
Yes. It is incestuous, just as teachers unions are. Government unions need to be abolished.
Yet another reason to put these folk last in line at the unemployment office!
Losing one’s right to vote on a temporary basis should be a mandatory requirement for employment by the government.
Yes, they do. People have NO idea how much federal government workers as a greater percentage absolutely hate conservatives. Many, many, many of them are foreign-born.
This has been true since the 1960’s at least.
I say cut the Federal workers by 90% (and bar them from being re-hired by gov’t), if too drastic in certain depts, hire the bare minimum to get the job done.
Allowing government agents to donate to politicians, or even to vote, is a conflict of interest.
Bring back the spoils system. Fire them all and hire Americans.
That’s what I’ve always thought:
“Yeah, you can work here, but you have to sign a legal document giving up your right to vote for the duration of your employment. It’s an obvious conflict of interest for the employee to be able to vote themselves a higher salary, so this should be a no-brainer, right? Sign here.”
Same with receiving government handouts and countless other things.
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