The group has been tracking Trump’s decimation of the federal workforce, which was composed of about 2.3 million civilian employees in 2022. It found that another 10,295 federal employees have left or been pushed out of their jobs in the last month. “We want to put them in trauma," Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said of federal employees. Today’s federal employees report feeling demoralized by the Trump administration, and are currently working without pay amid the shutdown. “We want to put them in trauma.”Contrary to the idea that Vought is flushing out “Washington bureaucrats,” the vast majority of federal employees work outside of the D.C. area.
