"Morale has never been lower": Federal gov't employment declines in first Trump year

[Free Vulcan]

Promise kept? Republicans have long promised to reduce the size of federal bureaucracies, a promise also adopted by Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign. According to the Washington Post, Trump made significant progress in trimming the number of federal employees and has put a Trump-era stamp on the bureaucracy:

Read more at: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/02/morale-never-lower-federal-govt-employment-declines-first-trump-year/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

but the morale of the rest of America is higher than ever.

I wonder if this is the first time in history the employment of non-military federal employees has shrunk?

That is worth a reward.

[Right_in_Virginia]

“Morale has never been lower,” said Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 federal workers at more than 30 agencies. “Government is making itself a lot less attractive as an employer.”

As it should ....