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[quote=Anonymous]My job so far has been largely unaffected, but I work in a fringe area that doesn’t get much attention, positive or negative. The administration has only proposed (relatively) minor cuts to my work. We have very good relationships on the Hill and have been plussed up significantly in Congressional budgets. We have very few politicals in place, though the few I have worked with have been totally fine/reasonable people. We absolutely do not discuss/acknowledge politics at all. One woman is overtly Christian, and routinely asks about my plans for religious holidays. I’m an athiest, but haven’t said anything to contradict her assumption that I am also a Christian - but I’ve always taken that approach at work.

More generally speaking, I’ve seen a lot if retirements among older folks who were already eligible to retire, but no younger folks have left. We’ve scooped up a number of folks from EPA. My agency is very mission driven, so I don’t doubt that there would be more losses if we were directly involved in work that people objected to morally.

I stopped following the news regularly after the election to manage my stress. I check in on occassion, and hear about very big things (like I did hear about the family separations). But not hearing every assinine thing this administration is trying helps a lot. Some of the news strikes me as sensationalist and only telling half the story. Like very fear mongering articles about the President’s propsed budget without every clarifying that the propsed budget isn’t the Real budget. They don’t say Congress sets the budget, and funding levels would unlikely reflect the President’s request. And we’re talking NYTimes and WAPO even. [/quote]

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