Poll: Majority of Fed Employees Support Impeachment

[James48]

Source: Govexec.com

One in three feds are concerned about impeachment's impact on morale, survey finds.
DECEMBER 18, 2019

A majority of federal employees support impeaching President Trump, according to a new survey released hours before the House votes to take that step for just the third time in U.S. history.

Just 43% of federal workers oppose impeaching Trump, compared to 52% who support it, according to the survey conducted by the Government Business Council, the research arm of Government Executive. Top-ranking civil servants at the GS-13 level and above are more likely to support impeachment, with 57% in favor compared to 46% of those at the GS-12 ranking or below.

Not all feds who oppose the president support impeaching him: Just 37% of employees approve of Trump, compared to 55% who disapprove. One-in-five Republican federal workers gave Trump negative marks.

About nine in 10 Democratic feds support impeaching Trump, compared to about half of independents and 19% of Republicans.

Half of respondents said the rhetoric surrounding the impeachment process, specifically on whistleblowers and the “deep state,” has had a negative impact on their perception of their own safety. Two-thirds of Democratic feds have felt concerned for their safety during the impeachment process, compared to slightly more than one-third of Republicans. One-in-three feds said they are now less likely to report wrongdoing to the appropriate authorities due to attacks by Trump and congressional Republicans on the whistleblower whose filing kicked off the impeachment proceedings. Another 16% said they are now more likely to blow the whistle.

Read more: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2019/12/poll-majority-feds-support-impeachment-half-say-rhetoric-has-hurt-their-safety/161994/

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The article goes on to give a link to the full poll results. Many of my coworkers are disgusted with him.

[ffr]

1. Just goes to show we have a lot of work to do to purge idiots who cannot read from Gov't

Case closed. This should be 98% to 2%, where you could contemplate 2% that just didn't know anything about anything, like the 43% in this survey. There aren't two sides to this.

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Feds include a lot of law enforcement and former

military types who probably are predisposed to support Trump.

[ffr]

3. Oh good. That'll make it even easier to give them walking papers.

I like simplicity.

[PatrickforO]

4. Of course they do! I cannot imagine how low morale has gotten with

Trump's know-nothing wrecking crew in charge.

[FakeNoose]

5. What about all the fed employees who have already lost their jobs because of Chump?

If you include them in the poll, it's damn near unanimous. Impeach & Remove!

[Wuddles440]

6. Anticipate....

increased attacks on the independent civil service system in the ensuing months and years. King CONald and his merry band of reTHUGicans cannot restrain their utter contempt and distain for public servants unless they are political hacks. Their fantasy of a return to the corruption of the patronage system is now unfortunately near realization.

[onetexan]

7. a family friend is a federal employee

He is a moderate republican whose been there through several administrations, and he is horrified by what he has seen and continues to see under the Idiot/GOP.

[Crowman2009]

8. I assume the shutdown had a lot to do with it?