An open letter to the President & U.S. Congress

Trump is gleefully thrashing the livelihoods of civil servants on YOUR watch.

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Federal workers have grown accustomed to a specific kind of dread over the past year. 2025 has been nonstop: First came the “fork” email from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, followed quickly by numerous layoffs from the Trump administration. As of July, more than 150,000 federal workers had resigned from their roles since president Donald Trump took office for the second time, according to The Washington Post. Tens of thousands were also fired. For the past few months, it seemed like this bloodletting was over—but that all changed on Friday. Thousands of employees at eight government agencies were subjected to RIFs, or reductions in force—the government’s formal process of laying off federal workers. According to a court filing from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Friday, this latest round of firings has affected more than 4,000 federal employees. The court filing also claimed that the administration targeted the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services the hardest, hacking away at a combined 2,500 jobs across the two agencies and the entire Washington, DC, office of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Department of Education culled nearly its entire team handling special education, CNN reported on Tuesday. At the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, cuts ranged from a few dozen to several hundred jobs, according to the same filing. Federal workers are civil servants and deserve respect. Trump and his administration vilifying these civil servants and using them as political pawns is completely unacceptable. These are Americans. Their livelihoods are being thrashed by gleeful millionaires and billionaires and this is happening on your watch. I expect you to do something about this.

▶ Created on October 15 by Ramy

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