Federal Workers

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Trump Says He’ll Move Thousands of Federal Workers Out of Washington. Here’s What Happened the First Time He Tried.

In 2019, the administration of then-President Donald Trump announced plans to relocate the federal government’s largest land management agency from the nation’s capital to Grand Junction, Colorado, a city of about 65,000 people a four-hour drive from the nearest major airport.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-election-federal-agencies?

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?️ Mapped: Where feds work

Data: Office of Personnel Management. Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Federal workers are largely concentrated in and around our nation's capital — no surprise! — but also have strong showings in some Mountain West states, plus Alaska and Hawai'i, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick writes. Why it matters: Some states may be more vulnerable than others as the second Trump administration works to significantly trim the federal workforce. By the numbers: D.C. has the most federal civilian workers per 100,000 residents — followed by Maryland, Hawai'i and Virginia, according to the latest OPM data, which predate President Trump's federal jobs cuts. Connecticut, New Jersey and New York have the fewest. Go deeper: Kansas City's DOGE pain.

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Six charts on the age of federal workers

In 2023, the average age of a federal employee was 47.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-old-is-the-federal-workforce/?

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🏆 First look! Fed worker winners

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios

The 2026 Service to America Medals honor people and teams across the federal government "whose accomplishments demonstrate the vital role that expert, apolitical civil servants play in our daily lives." The awards, aka the "Sammies," are run by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service. This year's winners: 👾 Gharun Lacy, State Department. Lacy led a team that stopped a cyber intrusion into State Department email accounts. 🛰️ James Szykman, EPA. Szykman led a cross-agency effort that validated NASA's TEMPO satellite, paving the way for better air pollution monitoring. 💵 Jill A. Frisch, ex-IRS. Frisch litigated landmark cases against multinational corporations that used complex schemes to artificially lower their tax bills. 🐄 Ransom L. Baldwin VI, Ph.D., Curtis P. Van Tassell, Ph.D., Paul VanRaden, Ph.D., and the ARS Dairy Cattle Genetic Enhancement Team, Department of Agriculture. The team played a leading role in revolutionizing dairy cattle breeding through DNA research. Go deeper.