by Emily Hung · News
Holiday cheer is in short supply this season for federal workers.
The Trump administration is poised to overhaul regulations to make it easier to terminate more career civil servants, on top of the hundreds of thousands who have already been fired, taken buyouts or voluntarily quit.
And the threat of yet another government shutdown early in the new year — carrying the risk of fresh layoffs — isn’t making spirits brighter.
“There is fear in the air. We are walking on eggshells everywhere,” an employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Another worker, at NASA, added, “There’s no stability at all anymore. And the thing about it is, I don’t know that there ever will be again.”
The CDC and NASA workers, along with three other current federal employees, were granted anonymity to air their concerns and experiences freely in interviews with MS NOW without fear of retribution.
Nonpolitical government workers who have evaded slashes by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and weathered the longest government shutdown in U.S. history are now concerned they may be laid off or fired after Jan. 30, when the temporary funding fix — and its accompanying job protections — is set to expire.
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