A leader of a good government research group credited the Trump administration for detailing their cuts of the federal workforce.
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said at a press briefing Thursday that a new database on government staffing released by the Office of Personnel Management was “a big step” towards transparency. Stier claimed the website was “more intuitive” and planning to update its data on the civil service every month “is actually a really good thing.”
“There’s a lot of very rich material,” Stier told reporters. “It tells a disturbing story that I tried to hit some of the highlights on about who we’ve lost in our government and what is actually happening to the workforce.”
In his earlier remarks, he described the “largely arbitrary” attack on the federal workforce during President Donald Trump’s first year of his second term. Food inspectors have fled the Department of Agriculture; managers have left the Social Security Administration; and auditors parted ways with the IRS, Stier said.
