Trump's tough talk on federal workforce puts...

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With promises to eliminate waste and redundant positions throughout the federal bureaucracy, Donald Trump’s arrival in Washington, D.C., has no doubt sent a shiver through the spines of millions of federal government workers. An American City Business Journals analysis of government data indicates that the nation’s 2.8 million federal workers account for around 2 percent of the nonfarm U.S. workforce. That ratio’s remained relatively steady for the past five years. Similarly, the total number of…