Great article in the New York Times:
A Sense of Dread’ for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition
Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.
At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their résumés.
At the United States Digital Service — the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration — workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups.
What? Do these people think they have tenure or something? Trump promised he would reduce the size of government - of course this means that jobs and positions will be eliminated. It is not my fault that many of these people have zero marketable skills outside of bureaucracy. They should cash in a chunk of their 401k and take a two-year Welding program. Lots of jobs out there for qualified welders.
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