At a grassroots press conference Monday evening, federal employees described the “terrible toll” the Trump administration has imposed on them this year. On the eve of the deadline for a government shutdown, a crowd of current and former federal employees convened outside the Supreme Court in downtown Washington, D.C., to make their voices heard. Several current federal employees, speaking in their personal capacity, described the “terrible toll” the Trump administration has imposed on the federal workforce over the last several months. We were already being retaliated against,” Osadebe told Federal News Network at the press conference. Within the Civil Servants Coalition, Kobrin described a broad range of comfort levels from federal employees, in how willing they are to speak out about what they have experienced this year.