House GOP turns heat up on federal workers - The Washington Post

Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), whose Northern Virginia district includes thousands of federal workers, counters that such symbolic efforts would damage the appeal of federal service at a time when large swaths of the workforce are eligible to retire and just 7 percent of federal employees are under 30.

Attracting new talent should be a bipartisan priority for Congress, he said. "We don't have the same handicaps we did under Trump," Connolly said, referring to the Schedule F effort and another ill-fated plan to blow up the Office of Personnel Management. 

But he said House Republicans "can still score points by making government less attractive, and damage is done when you disparage federal employees just as we're trying to make federal employment more attractive."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/house-gop-federal-workers-jim-jordan/