Federal employees ordered back to in-person work, terminating remote arrangements — accelerating attrition alongside hiring freezes and deferred-resignation pressure.

Federal hiring freeze imposed on civilian agencies, beginning workforce contraction aligned with Project 2025's plan to shrink the administrative state by attrition.

Merit Systems Protection Board vacancies left thousands of federal whistleblower and Schedule F appeal cases in limbo — removing a key check on retaliatory firings.

OPM intensified deferred-resignation buyout pressure on career civil servants — offering exit packages while threatening RIFs for employees who declined, mirroring Project 2025 workforce purge tactics.