Federal Government Policy and Business

Trump Administration Will Ask Career Feds How to Do Things Better -- or Not at All

Government Executive: Career federal employees will play an outsized role in crafting the Trump administration’s effort to reshape government, one of the architects of the plan said, and those who survive the ultimate workforce reduction will come out on the other side with a renewed sense of purpose.

The administration is taking a deliberate approach to cutting the federal workforce, Office of Management and Budget Senior Adviser Linda Springer told Government Executive in an interview Tuesday, and is confident employees will emerge feeling better about their careers. OMB has billed its guidance implementing elements of two different executive actions -- one to come up with a long-term plan to reduce the civilian workforce and another calling for the reorganization of the executive branch -- as a new approach never before attempted in government.

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