Federal Workers are Demoralized: Our recent survey shows the federal workforce is deeply dissatisfied and doesn't trust political leadership. Congress could help — if it wanted to.

The Trump administration came into office last year promising to traumatize our nation’s civil servants. In that, it succeeded, haphazardly jettisoning more than 300,000 federal employees, dismantling agencies, cutting critical programs and services and appointing political leaders based on loyalty, not competence or character.

The result, according to a new survey of federal employees, is a demoralized and battered workforce that remains dedicated to their jobs but sees a decline in services provided to the public and gives agency leaders an unequivocal failing grade. These disturbing findings have serious consequences for our country’s health, safety and prosperity.