Three Federal Workers Hit by DOGE

三位联邦员工遭狗狗币袭击

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2025-03-28

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President Trump’s unprecedented effort to shrink the federal labor force is impeding work at government sites across the country. Three laid-off federal employees tell their story and WSJ’s Lindsay Ellis reports on the wider impact of the layoffs. Further Listening: - Inside DOGE's Campaign of Secrecy  - Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart  Further Reading: - The Collateral Damage of Trump’s Firing Spree  - The Federal Workers Who Are Not Quite Fired, Not Quite Working  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • My name is Victoria Delano.

  • My name is Keith Kamir.

  • My name is Brett Taylor.

  • I live in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • I'm located in Milford, Pennsylvania.

  • I was a social work associate with the Rocky Mountain, Va.

  • And I worked.

  • For the U.S. department of Education Office for Civil Rights as an equal opportunity specialist.

  • I was actually working for the Internal Revenue Service, the infamous irs.

  • Victoria, Keith,

  • and Brett are among thousands of government employees who've been laid off as the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce in the name of efficiency.

  • They say that the work they used to do could be at risk of falling through the cracks,

  • like Victoria's job of investigating alleged civil rights violations in local schools.

  • My co workers who were terminated were immediately, like me, cut out of the system,

  • cut out of having any ability to get into the case management system and assist with any transfer of those cases.

  • Those cases are just lost in the abyss.

  • Now.

  • Brett, who worked at the Department of Veterans affairs,

  • worries about a VA with fewer hands to help homeless vets.

  • Not only would the veteran be in crisis,