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The Economist
The Economist
29 Jan 2025


NextImg:Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
United States | Executive power

Donald Trump goes to war with his employees

The president wants to shrink and remake the civil service

|Chicago


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O GET a sense of what Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government, talk to people who work in it. “I’ve been with the government for over 10 years, I lived through the first Trump administration, and nothing compares to this,” says one Treasury employee. Some workers are busy scrubbing their personal social media for items that could be interpreted as disloyal. Others are scrubbing up their resumes, anticipating that they will soon be looking for new work. Those who plan to stay expect their jobs to get worse, as colleagues flee or are not replaced. Everyone is “in absolute panic mode”, says another senior civil servant.

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