Almost 3 million Americans are employed by the federal government, and more than 80 percent of those live outside the Washington, DC area. From park rangers to meat inspectors to land surveyors and law enforcement, civil servants keep America running. Over the past two weeks, Elon Musk and his DOGE cronies have launched a war against civil servants, summarily firing more than 10,000 federal employees who had been engaged in global humanitarian efforts, seizing Americans’ tax records at the Treasury Department, and now targeting the independent agency tasked with protecting Americans from corporate fraud and scams.