Democrats resisting Trump’s plan to drain the swamp

Published February 4, 2025 11:45am ET



President Donald Trump’s long effort to slash the bloated federal workforce is being met with resistance from Democrats who strongly disapprove of his offer to some 2 million bureaucrats to resign.

In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets, Democrats turned up their nose to the offer and were lukewarm to his push to get the federal workforce back into empty offices cleared out nearly five years ago when the COVID-19 crisis hit.

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