Federal employees on edge as Trump promises big changes [Video]

Federal employees are on edge as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to relocate government agencies, reduce the workforce and replace some non-partisan positions with political appointees during his second term. “Overall, they’re scared,” said Randy Erwin, who serves as president of the National Federation of Federal Employees. The union represents roughly 110,000 government workers across the country. Currently, about 4,000 of the more than 2 million federal employees are considered political appointees who usually change with each administration. At the end of Trump’s first term, he sought to reclassify thousands of career positions, stripping them of job protections and paving the way to increase the number of appointees. Trump’s campaign agenda lists reinstating that executive order as the first step in his plan to “dismantle the deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption.””I will immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats and …