Kate Miceli helped launch a national campaign to end gender-based violence at work and oversaw two grants totaling $6.4 million during her time at the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau.
While the DOL’s funding has remained largely flat over the past year, the Trump administration canceled both grants and sidelined the subagency where Miceli worked, halting projects like the campaign. Most of last year Miceli’s workload instead consisted of removing website pages on gender equity and reorganizing the office.
“We were not allowed to do the work we were doing anymore. We were not allowed to email people anymore, everything got cut,” said Micelli, who resigned in August. “It’s painful when you go from running an agency that was punching way above its weight to having to come into the office five days a week and just sit there.”
Miceli’s diminished workload is emblematic of the reduced responsibilities for DOL staff in the offices the Trump administration has sought to cut, but Congress still continued to send funding. The jobs and the office exist, but there’s little effort to complete tasks or fill empty positions.
Across the Women’s Bureau, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and Bureau of International Labor Affairs, the administration slashed staff sizes and cut core functions, leaving the subagencies with tens of millions of dollars to fund work now performed by few employees with little to do.
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