
"This isn’t just a job to us": Fired federal workers decry the Trump-Musk assault on government
SalonFederal workers are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s claims about the state of the country and the mass firing spree under his watch, warning it will undermine communities and leave people across the country with diminished access to the services that they rely on. At the news conference Wednesday, Paul Osadebe, a union steward with the American Federation of Government Employees Local 476, said that Trump’s lengthy State of the Union speech this week was but his latest attempt to “distract and to pit Americans against each other.” In his own remarks, he highlighted how Trump scapegoated transgender Americans and immigrants while neglecting to discuss topics like affordable housing. You will not be able to get local help.” Chris Wicker, former deputy director of Minnesota’s small business administration office, who attended Tuesday night’s address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., noted that Trump didn’t do anything to comfort veterans across the country, who are watching the administration make drastic cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism Tiffany Montes, a recently fired National Parks Service worker, noted how Trump made no acknowledgement that his mass firing spree has thrown droves of former federal workers' lives into uncertainty.
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