National Security Workforce

To be successful, these career national security personnel must be able to do their work free from discrimination, undue political interference, or fear that they or their family members will be used as partisan pawns.

Call on Congress to support our career national security workforce, strengthen programs that address discrimination and harassment in the federal workplace, and ensure that our military and Foreign Service families are adequately taken care of.

The Latest

The Trump administration’s ongoing politicization of the military was put on stark display during an unprecedented gathering of top generals and admirals in late September, where President Trump gave an hour-long campaign-style speech attacking political opponents, former presidents, and the media while making numerous false claims on topics unrelated to the military. More concerningly, President Trump stressed that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard,” going on to reference major American cities like Chicago and Seattle and the need to have the military handle “the enemy from within.” The speech came in the wake of National Guard deployments to Los Angeles in June (along with hundreds of active duty Marines) and to Washington, D.C., in August, where guardsmen have paused training in their military specialties and battle drills to handle groundskeeping and urban foot patrols.  

Thus far, Congress has yet to take any action to check the administration’s string of moves that have undermined military readiness, from the firing of senior military leadership without explanation and the removal of top military legal officers to the administration’s efforts to separate thousands of trans troops ably serving their country. Nor has Congress stopped the administration from wreaking havoc on our diplomatic and development personnel, with the abrupt dismantling of USAID upending the lives of thousands of staff and their families and haphazard reductions of the State Department’s workforce.