The American voters have been duped by Trump and Vought who are on a mission to take away their benefits by attacking the very people who provide these services.
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Statements from some committee members and witnesses at the hearing were misleading at best, gaslighting at worst, and most certainly an attempt to shut down without good reason the agency that represents the very best of America.
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President Donald Trump declared war on the civil service on his first day in office, and AFGE has been taking on the Trump administration from Day 1.
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AFGE, along with AFSCME, AFGE Local 1216, and United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, filed a lawsuit against OPM Feb. 19, challenging the agency’s unprecedented mass firing of probationary federal employees.
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Week 5 was full of chaos, disruptions, lives destroyed.
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Each February we recognize Black History Month as a time to honor Black culture, community, and contributions throughout American history.
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AFGE and allies vowed to continue the fight against the Trump administration’s illegal effort to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) following a court decision allowing the administration to put employees on leave.
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Federal agencies spent years recruiting and developing the next generation of public servants, but Presidents Musk and Trump on Feb. 13 directed agency heads to fire nearly all probationary employees, throwing away the very talent that agencies need to function effectively in the years ahead.
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AFGE has launched a new series, Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest, to document chaos, corruption, and efforts to dismantle our democratic institutions by the Trump administration.
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Federal workers gathered in Washington, D.C. last week during the most critical time in their federal careers as Presidents Trump and Elon Musk unleased an unprecedented assault on the public service, agency missions, and democratic institutions.
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Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., held a press conference outside the Department of Veterans Affairs Feb. 13 to shine a spotlight on veterans suffering from President Trump’s policies, including attack on VA employees, one fourth of whom are veterans.
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President Trump is targeting new hires in a broader effort to purge government employees, cut off services to the American people to make way for tax cuts for the wealthy, including Elon Musk.
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President Trump’s illegal directives keep coming, but federal workers who take the oath to uphold the Constitution are not taking it lying down.
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In an early victory for government workers, a federal judge has granted a limited temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from implementing its deferred resignation program and suspending the Feb. 6 midnight deadline for federal employees to respond.
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A federal judge partially blocked Elon Musk’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems in response to a lawsuit filed by AFGE and allies.
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