The Federal Workforce Caucus will address this challenge by working alongside union leaders and civil service organizations to rebuild the capacity of the federal workforce. The Caucus will prioritize shielding our nonpartisan civil servants from politicization ... Our goal is to not just to rebuild the federal workforce as it existed before, but to push forward, innovate, and build an even more effective, modern federal workforce that delivers for every American family.
Work with union leaders and civil service organizations to rebuild the federal workforce, shield career civil servants from politicization, and modernize it so it serves American families more effectively.
Occurrences
Evidence
The office's latest news list shows two recent federal-workforce actions: a June 3 statement condemning attacks on merit-based civil service and a June 5 joint statement with Hoyer and Van Hollen about reclassification of thousands of federal workers.
Assessments
In his first House term, Walkinshaw has taken concrete same-term steps on this promise: he founded and co-chairs the Congressional Federal Workforce Caucus, introduced or backed multiple federal-workforce bills, supported collective-bargaining legislation, and publicly opposed the administration’s civil-service reclassification. Those actions show real work to protect career civil servants and engage workforce stakeholders. But the promised end results—rebuilding and modernizing the federal workforce and actually shielding it from politicization—have not been delivered; the main evidence points to advocacy, legislation, and organizing rather than a completed federal policy change.