The Trump administration is trying to eliminate programs for developing high-performing public sector leaders

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   Democracy 2025 reports that the Federal Executive Institute had trained more than 30,000 public-sector leaders since 1968 before the abolition order; the order and source identify no adjudicated fraud by the institute and no audited savings amount from closing it.

   Institute history, participant count, and elimination chronology

   Federal Executive Institute abolition removed a leadership school used by more than 30,000 officials · OPM carried out the institute's abolition; its executive-development program ceased operating.