Students enrolled in government and government-adjacent degree programs can rest assured that there will be professional positions for them now and in the future despite the Trump administration’s intentions to reduce the federal workforce.
“There are going to be jobs. There are going to be jobs right now and in the future,” said U.S. Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV), who graduated in 2005 from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government with a degree in government and international politics.
In an interview last Friday in his Capitol Hill office, Moore, a former speaker of the house and the treasurer for West Virginia, said he spent six hours the day before at the White House in meetings with the president and other members of Congress.
“What I think you are going to see is [the White House] trying to make sure there is an alignment as it relates to the policies and objectives of this administration within the department and agencies” affected by streamlining, he said.
“Is [President Trump] trying to find efficiency within that [streamlining]? Yes, but he’s also maximizing taxpayer dollars for the ultimate objective of public good—security and safety—which is why government exists anyway. So, there will be government jobs.”
The government, Moore said, “does a lot of good things, but we need to make sure that it’s doing things efficiently and effectively and that meets ultimate objectives of the people who have elected the officials here to represent them in this constitutional republic.”
The course correction underway, Moore suggested, “is going to end up being a good exercise that we’re going through. I think can end up being beneficial.”