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How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress

For generations, government jobs helped build the Black middle class. With Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, those days may be over.

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David A. Love
Apr 16, 2025
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As Trump’s MAGA administration proceeds with the mass firing of thousands of government workers — a federal appeals court recently paved the way for Trump to fire roughly 25,000 probationary employees — what is missing from the discussion is that this war on the government is a war on Black progress. After all, government jobs built the Blac…

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David A. Love is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, and a Philly-based writer who focuses on issues of justice, race, human rights, law and politics.
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