
“To what degree do you trust them?” asks the Ford School's Don Moynihan of the some 54,000 to 104,000 Trump loyalists expected to assume public service positions after Trump's wave of mass federal firings. “That is quite a different proposition than has been faced by any president in the past.” Moynihan argues that the next administration will have a difficult time trusting the public service workforce and collaborating. “How do you rebuild trust in the idea that public service work is attractive?” questioned Moynihan.