This year, Public Service Recognition Week arrives during a time of deep uncertainty for the federal workforce. In seeking to reduce the size of government, recent policies undermine the expertise and independence of career civil servants and create an environment of instability. These efforts—targeting employee protections, weakening collective bargaining rights, and limiting the scope of merit-based hiring in addition to ending the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program—threaten to push out some of the best and brightest in public service.

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PMAA denounces the ongoing violence and aggression against Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). The recent attack in Atlanta, including the murder of six Asian and Asian American women, highlights the alarming, and sadly growing, trend of bias and hate crimes targeting the AAPI community.

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