More than 300,000 federal workers have left government service since
the start of the second Trump administration.Some were laid off by the administration. Some took buyouts. Some walked out. The cuts hit every major agency —
from the State Department to the Justice Department.That doesn’t mean things have been easy for those still working for the government. Last week, the Office of Personnel Management proposed
requiring all federal employees to sign non-disclosure agreements that would prevent them from sharing internal government information.
We sit down to talk about how those cuts are affecting the workers who remained.
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