#Trump also has been rolling back #FederalPrograms that help households make ends meet. His signature domestic policy law, passed in July, will reduce access to #Medicaid & #FoodStamps. Because of Trump’s opposition to an extension of #HealthInsurance subsidies, millions of Americans will soon face sharply higher premiums.

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4 fmr #DOJ lawyers told Reuters some attorneys in the #FederalPrograms Branch left over policy differences w/ #Trump, but many had served in the first Trump admin & viewed their role as defending the govt regardless of the party in power.

The 4 lawyers who left said they feared Trump admin policies to dismantle certain #FederalAgencies & claw back #funding appeared to violate the US #Constitution or were enacted without following processes that were more defensible in court.

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"They have to be willing to advocate on behalf of their clients & not fear the political fallout," said Mike Davis, head of #ArticleIIIProject, a pro-#Trump legal advocacy group, referring to the role of #DOJ lawyers in defending the admin's policies.

People who have worked in the section expect the #FederalPrograms Branch to play an important role in the Trump admin's attempts to capitalize on a #SCOTUS ruling limiting the ability of #judges to block its policies nationwide.

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In its broad overhaul of the #DOJ, the #Trump admin has fired or sidelined dozens of #lawyers who specialize in prosecuting #NationalSecurity & #corruption cases & publicly encouraged departures from the #CivilRights Division.

But the #FederalPrograms Branch, which defends challenges to White House & federal agency policies in federal trial courts, remains critical to its agenda.

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Three of them said some career lawyers feared they would be pressured to misrepresent #facts or #legal issues in court, a violation of #ethics rules that could lead to professional #sanctions.

…Some turnover in the #FederalPrograms Branch is common between presidential administrations, but the 7 sources described the number of people quitting as highly unusual.

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Reuters spoke to 4 former #lawyers in the unit & 3 other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized & exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against the #Trump admin.

"Many of these people came to work at #FederalPrograms to defend aspects of our constitutional system," said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump's 2nd term. "How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?"

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69 of the roughly 110 lawyers in the #FederalPrograms Branch have voluntarily left the unit since #Trump's election in November or have announced plans to leave, according to the list compiled by former #DOJ lawyers & reviewed by Reuters.

The tally has not been previously reported. Using court records & LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but 4 names on the list.

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