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A Letter to the American People


March 1, 2025 A letter to the American People: For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving you to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants.

18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers. However, all employees at 18F – a group that the Trump Administration GSA Technology Transformation Services Director called "the gold standard" of civic tech – were terminated today at midnight ET. "This decision was made with explicit direction from the top levels of leadership within both the Administration and GSA," Shedd said in an email shortly after we were given notice.

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