# AFGE The **American Federation of Government Employees** (AFGE), founded in 1932 and affiliated with the AFL-CIO, is the **largest union representing federal and D.C. government employees**, with roughly 750,000–800,000 members across most civilian agencies. Its president since 2020 is **Everett Kelley**. For Right Wing KB purposes, AFGE matters as the **principal institutional defender of the federal civil service against the second Trump administration's workforce-dismantlement program**. Kelley characterized the pre-inauguration [[Musk Federal Employee Doxxing]] as tactics "aimed at sowing terror and fear at federal employees," and AFGE has been a lead litigant and public opponent of the [[DOGE Establishment]]-era machinery: the "Fork in the Road" deferred-resignation program, mass RIF actions, [[Schedule F]] reclassifications, telework rollbacks, and the February 2025 "justify your job in five bullets" email ultimatum. The administration's broader effort to strip collective-bargaining rights from large portions of the federal workforce runs directly through AFGE, making it a structural successor-target in the lineage running from the [[PATCO Strike and Firing]] forward. ## See also - [[Musk Federal Employee Doxxing]] — the pre-inauguration intimidation episode AFGE named first - [[DOGE Establishment]] — the workforce-dismantlement machinery AFGE litigates against - [[Schedule F]] — the civil-service-protections rollback framework - [[PATCO Strike and Firing]] — the 1981 precedent for executive confrontation with a federal union