Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said his group is hearing from some workers that they may leave the federal workforce out of concern that their jobs may no longer be stable.
“If they were uncertain about whether to retire now or not, many of them probably will retire or are at least telling us they’ll retire,” Whitehouse said.
“And then there’s the younger staff, many of whom … we know are out there looking for new jobs because their whole career and whole profession is being stigmatized and denigrated,” he added.