Federal employees scramble to insulate themselves from Trump's purge - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : But Trump promises a transformation unprecedented in the modern federal system, a restructuring far deeper than in his first term.
46% : Now, Vought, the first-term White House budget chief who began implementing Schedule F at the Office of Management and Budget, is set to return to the same role, as Trump is pledging to reinstate Schedule F.Many civil servants, facing whiplash from a Biden presidency that embraced federal employees and their unions, say they need to get ahead of what might happen.Civil servants are joining encrypted messaging channels and anonymous chatrooms on Reddit to game out the possibilities.
41% : The Education Department, NOAA, Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, Justice Department, and at least two dozen smaller agencies are targets for steep cuts or elimination, according to Trump's campaign website.
35% : As they wait to see whether Trump and his allies will be able to follow through, the resistance that many career civil servants showed to his first-term agenda is largely going underground this time, with staff keeping their heads down rather than speaking out and risking being singled out.
33% : Before Trump takes office Jan. 20, career staffers are racing to outmaneuver his plans to gut and radically reshape the nonpartisan bureaucracy of 2.3 million.
32% : "Beyond these sweeping structural changes, many federal employees also fear they'll be singled out by Trump or Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech moguls tapped to run his new "Department of Government Efficiency," who have begun calling out public servants on social media to ridicule what they see as wasteful or politically tinged jobs.
24% : Trump came to Washington in his first term in 2017 pledging to shrink government and do battle with what he called a bloated bureaucracy.

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