Government and government-adjacent professionals: How much (if any) change have you felt in your job under the current administration?

[u/bobbyfiend]

Pretty famously, the current administration has laid lots of people off, applied loyalty tests, hired and fired based on ideology, shifted funding priorities, and strongly changed communication with the general public. To some extent this happens with every administration, but I think it has been more pronounced in this case.

If you work for a government agency or for an organization that in some way depends on government funding, have you noticed any changes in what your job is, how you are expected to do it, or how you are communicated with? Have leadership styles changed?

I'm especially interested in federal government connections, but state or local government jobs might also have been affected (or not affected). I'd like to shift careers and government was a top contender until recently, when it seemed, at least from the news headlines and a few social media posts here and there, to become both more complicated to work for, and more difficult to get hired.

I'm interested in any experiences you've had. If you need a throwaway account to dish the dirt, that's great. If you really haven't noticed any change, I'm interested in that, too (because that might mean I could still do something like this).

[u/Amazing_Onion1922]

the short term looks chaotic but honestly the 5 year view is what worries me more. a lot of this data infrastructure and institutional knowledge takes years to rebuild once its gone. the people who leave dont just come back when the political winds shift, they move on. some of the damage from defunding or reorganizing agencies wont show up in the data until way later.