President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to make wide-scale changes to the federal workforce,

cutting jobs, replacing career civil servants with political appointees, and relocating government offices.

Laura Barone Lopez has more in just a moment, but first, let's hear from federal government employees across the U.S.

My name is Colin Kramer.

I'm a chemist with the EPA.

I'm involved with AFGE Local 704 as a union member.

My name is Jesus Seriano.

I'm a scientist and a program director

at the National Assets Foundation.

I am also president of AFGE, Local 3403.

My name is Michael Knowles.

I'm an asylum officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,

and I'm the Executive Vice President of the AFGEE National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council 119.

I'm Sharia Smith, a Dallas-based civil rights attorney at the U.S. Department of Education,

where I also serve as the union president for my almost 3,000 colleagues in this agency nationwide.

I did read after his election some statements about eliminating the agency.

And I, you know, I think it's short-sighted, you know, certainly for perhaps he has not had to interact with our agency

because his own children, he's been able to afford to educate them privately.

But that is not the situation for most Americans.

When our future boss, the president, is passing the message that we do not belong here,

that many of us will lose our jobs, that our families will suffer, that we may be forcibly relocated

to other areas. We care. We suffer. Employees are fearful,

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