DC Federal Workers in ‘panic’ because of a new experience of uncertainty of work with Trump’s cuttings

Federal Washington workers, DC, experience the instability of the job for the first time, and the whole city is in a “panic”, according to one report.

President Donald Trump and Department of Efficiency of the Government of Elon Musk (Doge) reduce consumption And abolishing the government programs left and right, which leads to release, buying and capitol shocked by a shell, not even for 3 weeks in his second term.

“Washington already feels a transformed place,” wrote older editor Politica Michael Schaeffer in Friday column. “And it will not only be distracted even if the crusade is over tomorrow … Something important in the culture has moved.”

In his work entitled, “Are we a dethroit now?”: Trump’s cuts Panika Washington, “Schaeffer examined the sudden anxiety and anxiety experienced by government workers living in one of the richest and most expensive areas of the country.

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“There is a very difficult time in DC,” said Yesim Sayin, the CEO of DC Politics Center. “The insecurities are so great. There is an entire industrial contingent on the federal government that spends money.”

“It’s hard to express how unknown uncertainty is on the base in Washington,” Schaeffer said. “The city has always felt like a city of a company where a company will never get out of work. Although most of us do not actually work for the government, its durability is formed by our expectations, not just in four -year steps. Washington’s essence informs the decision to buy a home or build a life. “

“It’s basically like a nuclear bomb fall and destroys all your future plans,” Sayin added.

Although Trump’s moves have influenced the performers, Schaeffer says that workers in the state capitol are experiencing a “new element to a city built on Government stability: the economic paranoia” and “Beltway category that did not exist until recently: waiting to be fired around.”

“For generations, the constant predictability of federal wages and government contracts has defined the life of Washington even for many people who do not work for an uncle on its own,” Schaeffer wrote. “Now the sudden awareness is that these payments may not be so predictable. It is a confusing, dizzying feeling: the city in the industry when the industry begins to mix.”

Federal judge delays the Rand of Trump Administration for Federal Workers

With Trump’s mandate that federal workers accept buying or personally returning to work, US Federation of Government employees (AFGE) and two other unions filed an appealTo say that the bid of redemption is “arbitrary and capricious” and that it violates the federal law.

Over 40,000 workers They agreed to buy, and on Thursday, the federal judge pushed the administration deadline to accept the purchase or resignation from Thursday to Monday.

As the federal bureaucrats with a white collar took care that the city was turning into a Detroit during the Auto -Industry collapse, Schaeffer spoke with Ron Fourier, a former DC journalist who returned to the City, who confirmed comparisons.

Fournier predicted that DC workforce would “not recover”.

“It’s hard to get back from what you were in what you thought was a stable industry, and then one day you wake up and realize it’s not,” Fournier said. “They will always change the way people in your city look at their history and how much they feel and how comfortable they feel and how they feel optimistic. It’s a psyche that won’t recover.”

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