At least some of these nonpolitical employees have begun packing up their belongings since being asked about their loyalty to President-elect Trump, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.
A revolution in such a large and diverse country is a difficult thing. They were hard enough to accomplish with smaller groups in the past. There must be unanimity with such actions or they will fail. So how do you unite so many people to move the same direction? The closest we've had in a long while is the UHC CEO shooting, and that's mellowed into memes more than anything. The bread and circus has been optimized for effectiveness.
If you're a federal employee I'd say you have two options: stay and fight like hell for the integrity of your role and department OR leave immediately without any knowledge transfer at all to maximize chaos.
The people they’re discussing are on a detail loan from another agency, so they’re just going back to their original posts with their parent agencies. Whole thing is still shitty and stupid, but there’s been clear messaging that they’re going to rotate all of them regardless, so probably not worth resisting, you just go back to your original job.