Federal workers aren’t quitting over Trump despite promises, protests

Published February 8, 2017 3:11pm ET



Joining a long list of “fake news” warnings that Washington was going to come to a standstill under President Trump, expectations and polls that over a quarter of the federal workforce would quit in protest to the Republican have evaporated.

What’s more, according to federal workforce statistics, retirement requests are the lowest in three years.

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