12/17/2019

GOVERNMENT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three years into the Trump administration’s promised war on the administrative state, the attacks appear to be having an effect, with the morale of the government workforce showing a decline for two years in a row. Morale among the country’s roughly 2 million federal workers fell by half a point in 2019, following a similar decline the previous year, according to an analysis of surveys administered by the Office of Personnel Management. The drop wasn‘t uniform across the government, and a number of agencies are feeling markedly upbeat, including NASA and the tiny U.S. International Trade Commission. But the decline was particularly significant at some of the crucial law enforcement agencies targeted by the president, including the FBI, the Justice Department and Customs and Border Protection, the new data show.”

-Michael Stratford, “Trump’s Been President for 3 Years. Government Morale Has Dropped for Two of Them.,” Politico, December 17, 2019 12:01 am