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Federal Workforce

Career civil servants who implement federal policy across administrations.

  1. 2026

    1 item
    Pendleton Act (1883)
    Celebrating 143 years of the merit-based civil service
    MSPB Jurisdiction
    May 15

    HHS strips civil service protections from hundreds of senior employees

    Hundreds of HHS senior staff lose firing protections as Schedule Policy/Career hits first agency

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    Everett Kelley
    Donald Trump
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    9 figures

  2. 2025

    7 items
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    FEMA workers warn agency at risk of Hurricane Katrina-type failures
    Current and former FEMA employees protest Trump overhauls to disaster agency
    Aug 25

    180 FEMA veterans warn Trump cuts risk Katrina-level disasters

    Disaster experts predict catastrophic failure from cuts

    David Richardson
    Kristi Noem
    Carey Hamilton
    3 figures
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    Where Trump policies and Project 2025 proposals match up
    CBP looks to expand its use of facial recognition technology
    Mar 15

    OPM resurrects Schedule F stripping protections from career workforce

    Schedule F enables mass firings as loyalty replaces merit in government

    Fact-checked via CivicSense verification process
    Federal agencies are ramping up efforts to prepare for a presidential transition
    Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision
    Jan 15

    Heritage Foundation vets 20,000 appointees before 2025 election

    Heritage Foundation picks officials before voters do

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    Jennifer Bacon
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    7 figures

  3. 2021

    1 item

  4. 2020

    1 item

  5. 2017

    1 item

  6. 2006

    1 item

  7. 1992

    1 item

  8. 1989

    1 item

  9. 1979

    1 item

  10. 1978

    1 item

  11. 1939

    1 item

  12. 1883

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People

Key figures in Federal Workforce

29 figures
Donald Trump
President of the United States
David Richardson
Acting FEMA Administrator
Everett Kelley
National President, American Federation of Government Employees
George W. Bush
President
Kristi Noem
DHS Secretary
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
Brian Thompson
U.S. Representative - MS District 2
Carey Hamilton
Former FEMA Administrator
Carl Levin
Center for American Progress
Liberal Think Tank
Dan Goldbeck
Senior Analyst, Federation of American Scientists
Jennifer Bacon
Personnel Office Deputy (2020)
Joe Biden
46th President of the United States (2021-2025)
John McEntee
Former Presidential Personnel Office Director (2020-2021)
Kevin Roberts
President of Heritage Foundation
Kiran Ahuja
Former Director, Office of Personnel Management
Lawton Chiles
Max Stier
President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service
Partnership for Public Service
Nonpartisan Transition Organization
Paul Dans
Project 2025 Director (2022-2024)
Paula Xinis
U.S. District Judge, District of Maryland
Peter Welch
U.S. Representative - VT
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Russell Vought
White House Budget Director
Scott Kupor
Director, Office of Personnel Management
Spencer Chretien
Project 2025 Associate Director
Stephen Miller
Immigration Policy Advisor
Susie Wiles
White House Chief of Staff
Tom Devine
Legal Director, Government Accountability Project