Trump’s federal workforce overhaul faces a new Congress after Democratic wins
Democrat James Talarico speaks during a rally on Nov. 1 in San Antonio, Texas. On Tuesday, he flipped one of his state's Senate seats. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
November 4, 2026 12:00 AM ET
At least one federal employee who separated from the federal government since last year will serve in the House.
Updated at 9:45 a.m. ET on Nov. 4.
Democrats will retake the House and Senate, several news outlets projected on Tuesday.
With control of Capitol Hill, Democrats are in a stronger position to push back on President Donald Trump’s federal workforce reforms that they’ve expressed opposition to, such as widespread cuts to agency headcounts and budgets, removing civil service protections from roughly 8,000 federal positions through the Schedule Policy/Career job classification as well as perform oversight over matters like the former Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting initiative.
The oversight implications were already...
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