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Labor union activists rally in support of federal workers during a protest on Capitol Hill, in Washington

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President-elect Trump has vowed to make wide-scale changes to the federal workforce by cutting jobs, replacing career civil servants with federal appointees and relocating government offices. We hear from federal government employees across the U.S. and Laura Barrón-López reports on…

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