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100 ways Trump has hurt workers in his first 100 days

Economic Policy InstituteCeline McNicholas, Samantha Sanders, Josh Bivens, Margaret Poydock, and Daniel Costa

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    Economic Policy Institute's first-100-days review connects the DOGE structure to agency workforce and service-capacity reductions and identifies affected public workers and programs; those effects are reported and analyzed separately from DOGE's own claimed savings totals.

    Federal workforce, DOGE, agency capacity, and public-service sections

    DOGE structure embedded White House-aligned teams in agency personnel and technology decisions · Temporary organization authorized through July 4, 2026; embedded-team consequences outlasted setup.

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    Economic Policy Institute's review describes the hiring order as adding ideological or loyalty-oriented screening to civil-service recruitment and analyzes the risk to a nonpartisan workforce; it is not a finding that every hire was politically selected.

    Federal hiring and civil-service politicization discussion

    Merit-plan order added presidential-policy alignment to federal hiring screens · Hiring-plan directives moved into agency guidance alongside broader workforce controls.