Various offices in the Department of Veterans Affairs stated that they had no records of email communications regarding holdovers from the previous administration.

Records from the Department of Veterans Affairs in response to American Oversight's request for records regarding accusations of career staff of disloyalty. American Oversight sought these records to determine if career holdover employees from the Obama administration are being subjected to retaliation.

Following reports that high-level Trump administration officials expressed concern about the “loyalty” of career civil servants at the State Department, and even explored ways to “purge” some of those career employees from their positions. American Oversight submitted this FOIA to determine whether similar conversations occurred at other agencies.