Your Government Is Under Attack: EPA Edition

Scientists are being purged, while the Trump administration offers imaginary gold bars for the rubes.

Sep 08, 2025

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Federal employees — the ones that chose to stick around though mass layoffs — DOGE and voluntary resignation offers, are trying to tell you something: Your government is under attack.

Civil servants are sending out SOS signals at an unprecedented level, despite great personal risk. NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote public protests ab…

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A guest post by

Don Moynihan

Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Immigrant. Researches and teaches about government, administrative burdens, and politicization.