• Workers fear damage to careers, families, and communities
  • Trump’s moves to upend federal bureaucracy touch off fear and confusion
  • Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to assess the impact on their lives.

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President Trump’s rapid push to overhaul the federal bureaucracy in his first days in office has been met with a mix of fear, fury, and confusion throughout the work force.

Dozens of employees across the government, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of worries of retribution, described agencies gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the new policies and workers frantically trying to assess the impact on their careers and families. As the nation’s largest employer, the upheaval in the federal government could reverberate in communities throughout the country.

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Source: Erica L. Green, Campbell Robertson, and Noam Scheiber, nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/trump-federal-workers.html