The Coalition for Professional Integrity

Trump fires labor statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after release of large revisions to employment data

Many are voicing concerns about Trump's decision to fire the BLS commissioner after BLS reported that the job market was weaker than expected. Federal workers must be protected so they don't have to choose between their professional integrity & jobs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

3 fired DOJ workers add to chorus of layoffs in 'foundering' workforce The Department of Justice has fired hundreds of employees this year, transforming a federal workforce that enjoys vast powers and responsibility over issues affecting the lives of everyday Americans.

"The Department of Justice is an exceptional institution that has provided a lot of good for our society and is foundering on the rocks right now" - @ourpublicservice.bsky.social President Max Stier www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...

2 independent watchdogs quietly replaced by Trump The former acting Education inspector general had accused administration officials of stonewalling an investigation, and the ex-acting Commerce IG was removed from that position for a second time.

Inspector General Rocque was replaced after notifying Congress that investigators looking into the ED workforce reductions experienced denials & delays in getting access to info. Federal employees should not have to choose between their professional integrity & jobs. www.govexec.com/oversight/20...

Six Months in, UCS Is in the Fight for the Long Haul Six months into the second Trump administration, what's UCS doing to fight attacks on science?

UCS recently released a report documenting the Trump administration’s attacks on and abuses of science. In her new blog, UCS @gretchentg.bsky.social describes how we’re fighting back—and fighting smart!—with the goal of minimizing the damage and continuing to make progress on our issues.

h/t @apduorg.bsky.social

US economic data quality a worry, authorities not acting urgently enough, experts say Risks to the quality of official U.S. economic data - long seen as the gold standard - are worrying 89 of 100 top policy experts polled by Reuters, with most also concerned that the authorities are not addressing the issue urgently enough.

Public data drives policymakers', companies' & everyday Americans' decisions. Unreliable data means that these decisions may be made on questionable grounds. Civil service protections, union rights & whistleblower protections safeguard the integrity of public data.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Weather forecasts, job market reports, and food safety warnings are based on federal data. Civil service protections and union rights safeguard the professional integrity of federal data workers, which helps ensure federal data is reliable and accurate. #publicdata #federaldata

Coalition partners ‪@ifpte.bsky.social‬ and AFGE are hosting a rally tomorrow at 12pm ET at the National Air & Space Museum to highlight the importance of protecting NASA, which means no cuts to NASA's budget, missions, and research funding.

Earlier this week, DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni was interviewed on The Daily podcast. He said the Trump admin has put civil servants “in this impossible position of fealty to the president… or fealty to uphold the Constitution…” Listen to the whole interview: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...

New UCS Analysis Documents Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions Today, my colleagues and I published a new report, Science and Democracy Under Siege: Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions. Our analysis attempts to capture the immense chaos and damage of President Trump’s second term, characterized by destruction of democratic p

In her blog, UCS Senior Analyst Darya Minovi breaks down our new report "Science and Democracy Under Siege" and explains how actions by the Trump administration are harming real people—and how they’ve bypassed public participation processes to benefit corporate polluters.

Over 3,000 taxpayer-funded federal data sets have been removed or interfered with due to political objectives. Americans lose out when the data they depend on is compromised or incomplete. Here’s how we protect the integrity of federal data: www.professionalintegrity.org/policy

Trump Administration Creates New Schedule G to Reward Political Lackeys and Undercut Civil Service Protections | National Federation of Federal Employees Early analysis reveals that Schedule G is nothing more than a corrupt workaround to funnel taxpayer dollars into the pockets of loyalists tasked with politicizing the federal government from within.

"Instead of raising wages for real public servants who serve the country with integrity, they’ve created Schedule G to reward political loyalists monetarily to assist in corrupting the government." - @nffe.bsky.social President Randy Erwin nffe.org/press-releas...

Tell Your Representative to Sign the Discharge Petition for the Bipartisan Protect America's Workforce Act This March, President Trump issued an executive order that took away statutory union rights from over one million federal employees. President Trump’s executive order isn’t just unlawful, it threatens...

A bipartisan majority in the U.S. House supports the Protect America’s Workforce Act, which reverses a Trump executive order and restores union rights for federal employees. Call your Representative and tell them to sign the discharge petition! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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The Trump Administration Is Targeting Science. The Scientific Integrity Act Could Help Protect It. The chairman of the House Oversight Committee initiated a formal investigation of federal agency scientific integrity policies and scientific work. This effort is itself an outright attack on science,...

Here’s the link where you can learn more about scientific integrity: act.ucsusa.org/ProtectScience

Urge Congress to Institute Scientific Integrity Protections for Federal Scientists Scientists working for the federal government need safeguards to do evidence-based work and to inform our nation’s policymaking without political interference. Urge Congress to support the Scientific ...

Here’s the link to contact your members of Congress about the Scientific Integrity Act: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-scien...

The Trump Administration's attacks on science underscore the urgent need to safeguard scientific integrity in the federal government. The Scientific Integrity Act would codify protections for federal scientists to ensure federal research is protected from undue influence & informs policy.

In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science.

Read our new report here: act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months

Easy action you can take today.

@integritycoalition.bsky.social set up a letter that will take less than 2 minutes of your time to send.

Tell Your Representative to Sign the Discharge Petition for the Bipartisan Protect America's Workforce Act This March, President Trump issued an executive order that took away statutory union rights from over one million federal employees. President Trump’s executive order isn’t just unlawful, it threatens...

Ensuring professional integrity in the government demands federal employees can speak up without fear of retaliation. Tell your Representative to help restore federal employees’ union rights by signing the discharge petition for the Protect America’s Workforce Act
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Pres. Trump’s attempt to take away the union rights of one million federal employees puts their professional integrity under constant threat. Contact your Representative to tell them to sign the discharge petition for the Protect America’s Workforce Act.
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

We must stand up for the integrity of federal data. h/t
@apduorg.bsky.social

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

Professionals in public health rely heavily on government datasets for their research & clinical work. Manipulation of government data that is hidden makes data untrustworthy & unusable, which harms those who rely on it to do their work and the people they serve. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Information Collection Activities; Comment Request The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies wi...

CALL FOR COMMENTS: BLS is planning to eliminate several data elements from the National Compensation Survey.
For details of the proposed changes and info on how to submit a comment:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Strong civil service protections for career federal employees are central to ensuring that they can operate with professional integrity and deliver quality, reliable government services that are in the best interests of the American people.

2026 appropriations bills could bring federal workforce changes "There were policies that were to encourage people to drop their merit-based civil service protections or not advance them," said John Hatton.

John Hatton of NARFE, a Coalition partner, discusses the status of a number of proposals which threaten to politicize the civil service by stripping federal employees of civil service protections in his interview with @federalnewsnetwork.com‬'s Terry Gerton. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

Stories from the Field: The Impact of Federal Funding Cuts on Population Health Researchers | Milbank Memorial Fund In collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, The Milbank Quarterly invited population health researchers to

The Milbank Quarterly is publishing stories from population health researchers about how they have personally been impacted by the Trump administration’s cuts to federal funding for health research.

Some stories are already published.

Additional submissions welcome: 
www.surveymonkey.com/r/C5GNKMG

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

New study finds that, of those sampled, 49% of federal datasets were altered since January 2025, and the vast majority of those alterations were neither explained nor documented.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Latest FedScope data offers a glimpse into federal workforce changes under DOGE and raises transparency concerns A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.

A review of OPM's raw FedScope data files for March 2025 by @ourpublicservice.bsky.social shows the federal civilian workforce shrank by 1.0% with the Depts of the Interior, Ag., & Ed. having the most losses. Changes to the data also raise transparency concerns. ourpublicservice.org/blog/new-fed...

Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 24 Week 24 saw Trump shutting down a government website with research on global warming, axing all NOAA’s tornado and hurricane research, and placing on leave 144 EPA employees who signed a letter of dis...

AFGE’s digest of attacks on federal employees includes threats to the integrity of the govt. that occurred in the past week. A govt. website w/climate change research was removed, NOAA research was axed & 144 EPA employees who signed a dissent letter were placed on leave www.afge.org/article/chao...