[tacticalogic]

The bottom line is that government employees may favor a reduction in government and/or a reduction in government spending, as long as it's not their department.

If they may, then they also may not, so the fact that they may is not the bottom line.

[robertpaulsen]

Then you have no problem changing your statement to, "I think (some) people who work for the federal government (may) have a conflict of interest when it comes to determining the appropriate limits of the power of the federal government"?