But to many federal workers, Pretti also was a colleague. “I like to think I’d be someone who stepped in.”Of course, the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents who shot Pretti were also federal workers. Under Trump, a chasm has widened between the majority of federal workers and ICE/CBP personnel. “It’s being replaced by anger.”Other federal workers are taking aim at ICE’s funding. “If the administration were so concerned about making America healthy again,” the NIH employee says, “they’d be with us.”