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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don’t want that. They want loyalists or to break the government enough to privatize it [/quote]

Yep. This. My old agency was a wonderful place to work until Trump took control. It was efficient, smart people, wonderful work-life balace, proven record og performance. Now it sucks.  Former shell of itself.[/quote]

It goes back to Trump’s first term- there had always been the fringe cranks and conspiracy theorists with their nutty theories about “shadow government” and with QANON that went mainstream and was embraced and weaponized by Trump, Bannon and others, morphed into “deep state” garbage.  Federal employees have now been viciously slandered and maligned, whether being cast as unqualified lazy mooching DEI hires, or corrupt, evil and diabolical Machiavellian schemers holding secret meetings plotting to destroy Trump and America, with no oversight or accountability.  None of this is really true for the rank and file, most federal employees are in fact highly qualified, experienced and good at what they do, following the Constitution and the laws of the land that they swore oaths to uphold, and dutifully carrying out the mission of the agencies they work for.  They have no allegiance to party or President, their allegiance is to the Constitution and the laws that they are supposed to execute on behalf of their respective agencies.

But now we’ve seen federal employees subjected to these constant lies, slanders and attacks for almost 10 years now, it has been grinding them down, plus DOGE downsizing and gutting of valuable projects, pointless elimination of telework, plus the Republican run Congress pushing changes to benefits and retirement that would amount to a 20% pay cut, plus the slap in the face of bringing in underutilized, incompetent loyalists at GS-15 levels, not backfilling vital positions, it just goes on and on and on.  Why would anyone want to work in suck an openly hostile environment? Especially when there isn’t really any genuinely valid reason for this hostility other than to pander to a base of egregiously misled and misinformed voters.[/quote]

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