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The aggressive impetus of the Trump administration to reduce public jobs is reflected in the early stages of this year’s race for a governor in Virginia.

The rapidly moving efforts of Republican President Donald Trump to process the federal workforce can have a great impact on the state, the home of about 145,000 federal officials and many other governmentalians. Virginia, who, along with New Jersey, chooses a new governor in 2025, is already considered something like an early indicator of the voter’s attitudes between the presidential election and seems to be sure to attract more care when the competition is formed.

“Government workers are fighting throughout the country – and there is a great density of federal workers in Virginia,” said Kevin Cooper, a political director of the American Federation of Government Officers. “These people are dedicated to civil servants who are out of work and I have no doubt that they will look for the upcoming elections to see who is talking in their defense and is ready to support the pro-worker, the pro-Union problems. “

Whether this opinion is widely shared will be tested in Virginia, where a former democratic congressman Abigail Spangberger and Republican lieutenant Governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, are the leading claimants. The primers are in June.

Earle-Sears said taxpayers do not want to pay more than they need for their government, and that what Trump is doing should not be a surprise.

“The president was fully elected to explain what he would do,” she said. “He didn’t hide anything from anyone.”

The new administration has proposed financial incentives to federal workers as part of a postponed resignation program organized by Trump Elon Musk adviser. It began cuts around the world, and it was only after the court’s intervention to cancel a plan for a broad pause for federal grants and loans. Legal challenges continue to change that have affected community health centers and other major services in Virginia.

In Richmond, Democrat Don Scott, the State Chamber of Delegates, said a new bilateral home committee would exhaust the impact on federal workforce. He said that political leaders should use “every tool in our tool box to fight this chaos and to protect the livelihood of the Virginians.”

Meanwhile, Earl-Ceoers said he supported Trump’s efforts to invest federal costs.

“The president, if I understand correctly, what he does is that he appreciates,” she said in an interview. “He audits who does it, how do they do it, where do they do it, and how do they have to do it? Is it law? Can we make some savings? ”

This is made into account with a recent commentary by Republican governor Glen Youngkin that the voters have supported the promises of Trump’s campaign and he is now working to implement them.

State Republican MPs share these moods widely.

In a heated debate in the Senate after freezing Trump’s temporary expenses, Republican Mark Obensher faced Trump’s critics.

“Cry me a river if you want, but I’m not convinced that the world is over or the Earth will stop rotating along the axis it rotates,” Sureisin said.

Democrats quickly point out that Trump has never wore Virginia in his three runways for the White House. And dates back to 1977, every time a new president was elected, the following year, Virginia voted in a governor on the opposite side.

Spangberger, who left the congress to run for a governor and build an advantage of raising funds, said Trump has contempt for federal jobs and this would cause damage throughout the country.

“Not only have I heard from federal employees in Virginia who worry about their livelihood and their ability to care for their families, but I have also heard from business leaders, performers and owners of small business who rightly upset with this , which these attacks mean the stability of the economy of our community, “says Spangberger in a statement.

Mark J. Rosel, Dean of the University Policy and Government School, George Mason, said the republican’s ability to connect with independent voters can be crucial in the governor’s race. He said that Earl-Siers will probably have to win some voters who do not fully support Trump’s vision.

“Winsome Sears has a difficult balancing act of implementation as the GOP base will expect her to give her full support to the president while the Swing voters will want her to show some independence from the president when she is in Virginia’s interest to do so.” , “Said Rosel. He said that America’s base “made America Great” to supporters “is not big enough in Virginia to choose a governor. Youngkin knew that in 2021, he successfully reached the swinging voters. “Rosel said Earl-Celence” would have a more difficult moment with Trump in service. “

The State Democratic Party has released statements that are pressing Earl-Sears and other Republicans to answer whether they “support Trump to unilaterally kill Virginia’s work.”

Earle-Sears has none of that.

“Nobody likes bureaucracy – we want to do things,” she said. “And unfortunately, sometimes the government stands in the path of people.”

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Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher in Washington has contributed to this report.

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Olivia Diaz is a member of the Associated Press/Report Corps for America Statehouse News Initiative. The report on America is a non -profit national service program that raises journalists in local news halls to report insufficiently concealed issues.