{"id":32366,"date":"2025-02-04T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/its-been-madness-us-federal-workers-reeling-over-trump-musk-takeover\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:43:49","slug":"its-been-madness-us-federal-workers-reeling-over-trump-musk-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/its-been-madness-us-federal-workers-reeling-over-trump-musk-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s been madness\u2019: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Office of personnel management workers say anxiety is palpable amid intimidation and threat of dismissal<\/p>\n<p>US government workers are describing an atmosphere of \u201cfear\u201d and \u201cmadness\u201d as they grapple with a barrage of executive orders issued by Donald Trump and threats to their jobs from the office of personnel management, the agency tasked with managing the federal civil service, which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/connolly.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6215\">taken over <\/a>by the billionaire Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks before the administration transition, federal worker unions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/nov\/18\/trump-federal-worker-civil-service-protections\">reported<\/a> low morale among workers in anticipation of pushes for intimidation, mass firings and harassment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/04\/us-federal-workers-trump-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office of personnel management workers say anxiety is palpable amid intimidation and threat of dismissal US government workers are describing an atmosphere of \u201cfear\u201d and \u201cmadness\u201d as they grapple with a barrage of executive orders issued by Donald Trump and threats to their jobs from the office of personnel management, the agency tasked with managing &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s been madness\u2019: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/its-been-madness-us-federal-workers-reeling-over-trump-musk-takeover\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s been madness\u2019: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}