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A group of 23 Democrats in both the House and Senate called on the Trump administration to detail its plans to administer the 2026 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, nearly a year after officials flouted federal law in cancelling it because of needed \u201ctransformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Each year, the Office of Personnel Management is required by law to conduct a survey of federal employees\u2019 workplace engagement and morale, with 16 of its questions mandated by federal regulations.<\/p>\n

But last year, OPM Director Scott Kupor canceled the survey, citing the need to remove questions to conform with the president\u2019s anti-diversity executive orders and to “refocus\u201d it on performance and efficiency. OPM also scrubbed data and analysis stemming from a series of diversity-related questions added to the survey during the Biden administration and removed most demographic data about federal workers from its workforce data suite FedScope.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Kupor last week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., led congressional Democrats in demanding information on when and how OPM intends to relaunch the questionnaire, which has been a key tool for agencies to improve operations and for observers to conduct oversight for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2025, the federal workforce experienced dramatic, and, in many cases, illegal changes,\u201d the lawmakers wrote. \u201cAccording to OPM\u2019s own data, approximately 317,000 employees left the federal government in 2025. The Pew Research Center noted that the federal workforce decreased by 10.3% in 2025. While the FEVS is critical in any year to fulfill statutory requirements and help improve the civil service, it is deeply concerning that in a year of significant change that this survey was cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Federal News Network last month, Kupor said his agency is reshaping the survey to focus on \u201cmicro level\u201d questions related to employee expectations and efficiency, and has previously touted his agency\u2019s use of quarterly \u201cpulse surveys\u201d to fill in the gaps left by the cancelled FEVS. But unlike FEVS, Kupor\u2019s reporting of the results of those surveys omits the text of the questions asked and the underlying data.<\/p>\n

Though FEVS originally was sent to just a sample of employees across the federal government, lagging response rates led OPM to switch to a census model, which solicited all eligible workers\u2019 response, in 2018.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers\u2019 letter comes as FEVS\u2019 traditional spring administration window closes\u2014OPM previously postponed FEVS in the fall of 2020 due to disruption caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. They asked for the list of questions planned for the 2026 survey, the timeline for its deployment, as well as any changes to how it solicits responses.<\/p>\n

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