Newsweek February, 2025
More than 600,000 federal workers live in Congressional battleground districts across the country. These voters — and their families — could end up shaping the outcome of the midterms after President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal bureaucracy.
Trump, on the first day of his second term in office, signed an executive order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a task force led by Elon Musk aimed at “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”