C11 Blog Post 1 Revenge of the Bureaurcrats

According to to an article from politico, given out in my AP Government class, Trump is playing to shrink the size of the government work force. He wants to shrink the size of the domestic agencies, but also slighting strengthening the defense workforce. The easiest way to make the reduction is by budget cuts to each agency. It is difficult to shrink the federal workforce because they belong to unions that can get their representative in Congress to help them. By reducing the work force it can anger workers all over the country. Unions (representing federal workers) are already protesting against Trump's proposal. They are counting on whistleblower laws to protect employees who had questions about his administration's activities. Many federal workers are concerned because House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is pushing a legislative package that would make it easier to fire federal workers.

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