Read the full article by Steve Martarano at Sacramento News & Review
The chaos following the creation and then disruption within Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, provided the impetus for Sacramento’s Sav Moore to abandon a career in the federal government and take a new path in a promising way — by opening a coffee shop.
Moore, 25, was on a meteoric rise as a data analyst at a U.S. Department of Agriculture office in Sacramento, and after five years, was seemingly the kind of employee the federal government would want to keep around for a long time.
But then came all the “gimmicky and unprofessional” developments, as Moore put it, involving federal employees once President Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20. With the arrival of the newly formed DOGE, then led by Tesla founder Elon Musk, thousands of federal employees across the country were immediately fired — with many hired back and then fired again — or offered various levels of buyouts. The administration ordered federal union contracts to be terminated. The confusion touched virtually every one of the Sacramento area’s approximately 14,300 federal employees as of August 2025, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.