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People hold signs as they gather for a "Save the Civil Service" rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) outside the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Trump tries to ban federal worker unions

Griffin Eckstein

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (L), head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), speaks during a Cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump (R) at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk's clean-up job backfires on Trump

Heather Digby Parton

People hold signs during a "Save the Civil Service" rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) outside the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Fed workers treated like whistleblowers

Jesselyn Radack

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats' first battle of 2025: Doge

Google employees work in their office (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Gov't workers still waiting on WFH order

Yeganeh Torbati - ProPublica

Hundreds of federal workers and contractors rally against the partial federal government shutdown outside the headquarters of the AFL-CIO January 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

The indignity of work without pay

Leo W. Gerard - Independent Media Institute

Trash begins to accumulate along the National Mall near the Washington Monument due to a partial shutdown of the federal government on December 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Win McNamee)

Shutdown more expensive than we thought

Shutdown to cost more than wall payment

Julie Burr's Gofundme page (gofundme.com/shutdown-story)

Fed employees turn to crowdfunding

The U.S. Capitol is seen during a partial shutdown of the U.S. government, on December 26, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Gov't to workers: Do chores for rent!

(Getty/sharpshutter)

Federal workers: Don't talk politics

Martin Cizmar - Raw Story

(AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

We all labor to support Trump's debt

Newt Gingrich (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

Giddy Gingrich

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-131635p1.html'>AVAVA</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Unpaid interns defy shutdown

Newt Gingrich, John Boehner (AP/Doug Mills/J. Scott Applewhite/photo collage by Salon)

The public knows who to blame

Soldiers salute during the Memorial Day ceremony (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Shut down the military, too!

(Wikimedia/Deptartment of Defense)

Natasha Lennard

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