Trump win stuns federal employee leaders worried about his policies

The Washington Post: Donald Trump’s electoral-college victory for president provides this lesson for federal employees — anyone can aspire to high government office, no matter how unqualified.

Hillary Clinton’s loss, despite an apparent popular-vote victory, also provides a lesson — life ain’t fair.

Fair or not, federal employees serve a government that will soon have a new boss in chief, one who thinks a federal hiring freeze would fight corruption. His victory shocked leaders of federal employee unions that largely, though not unanimously, backed Clinton. Nonetheless, they are determined to make the best of a bad situation.

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