New Public Service Viewpoint Survey data provides the most comprehensive perspectives on the federal employee experience at agencies including DHS, State Department and HHS under Trump administration    WASHINGTON — The nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service today released data from the new Public Service Viewpoint Survey, revealing the Trump administration’s management of the federal workforce over the past year has left employees disengaged, demoralized and less effective at serving the public. Only 7.5% of employees agreed that political leaders generate high levels of...

WASHINGTON – The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service today released the following statement from President and CEO Max Stier ahead of the one-month mark of the Department of Homeland Security’s funding lapse, triggering a shutdown of the agency’s critical operations.   “As the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security passes the one-month mark, the American public are feeling the real and significant impacts of this shutdown – from longer lines at the...

WASHINGTON – The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service today issued the following statement from president and CEO Max Stier ahead of a likely partial government shutdown that will impact the Department of Homeland Security, pending the expiration of a continuing resolution on Feb. 14: “Make no mistake – the stakes around this partial shutdown exist because our elected leaders have continuously neglected their constitutional duties. The Trump administration has long misused...

WASHINGTON – The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service today released the following statement from President and CEO Max Stier ahead of the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s executive order directing agencies to implement hiring freezes and pursue large-scale reductions-in-force on Feb. 11:   “This reckless executive order was the catalyst for the largest-ever waste of public sector talent in our nation’s history. We lost more than 300,000 federal workers, with the largest outflow taking place at...

The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service today released the following statement from President and CEO Max Stier in response to the Office of Personnel Management’s final rule on Schedule Policy/Career, which is the first step toward removing job protections for certain career federal employees and making them fireable for political reasons: “No matter what the administration says, today’s action has nothing to do with restoring merit in federal employment. This new designation can be used to remove expert career federal employees who place the...