Fired Federal Worker Reveals Chilling Trump-Era Condition To Get Job Back
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People are "afraid to talk," she told MSNBC's town hall with other former government employees pushed out amid Donald Trump's slashing of public spending.
A group of federal workers — who say they were fired or pushed out from their jobs amid President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slashing of public spending and gutting of the federal government — lifted the lid on the unsettling developments during a live town hall on MSNBC on Thursday.
The former public servants emotionally described to the network’s Stephanie Ruhle and Jacob Soboroff how their lives had been upended by the sudden termination of their jobs which many of them had believed — due to their critical nature — wouldn’t be targeted.
One woman, Alyssa Ellman, who was fired from her role with the Buffalo Veterans Affairs office, said she was then offered the role back (as many fired workers have been) but only on the condition she didn’t talk to the media.
The veteran defied that order, though, to talk on MSNBC, explaining how as a survivor of cancer (which Soboroff said was possibly caused by exposure to toxic burn pits when she was serving in Afghanistan), she had opted to work over living off disability payments because, “I really care about veterans, I love to work, I didn’t want to feel stagnant or stay home” and “wanted to give back” to the system.
“I’m in a really unique position where I don’t really need this job,” she admitted, but said her former coworkers are “afraid to talk” because they “need their jobs.”
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