Power grab. Elon Musk moves to get control over more federal agencies, effectively ransacking them

over the objections of the people who actually know what they do. You're causing massive disruptions

to a system that supports the common person.

Don't forget about my colleagues that are overseas, and they don't even know how they're getting home.

The whole point of doing that work, whether it's for malaria or for COVID, is that bat does not come to the U.S. and hurt us here.

It's a major slap in the face to be told that we're not being productive members of this society.

Anybody else waiting for reinstatement here that hasn't gotten it yet?

One, two, three.

I've heard nothing at all.

An insult to our democratic system.

Get them back their jobs.

This is an MSNBC special, 100 Days of Trump, a town hall with forced out federal workers.

Good evening. I'm Stephanie Ruhl live from Washington, D.C. for a very special broadcast.

Tonight, we have gathered former federal workers from across the government who have been

forced out by Doge. Many of the folks in this audience still don't know what comes next for them.

We have all seen the headlines from the last hundred days, but we wanted to take this hour

to go deeper. And we wanted to give you a better

idea of who these workers are, what they do, and what these cuts will mean for all of us.

As citizens and taxpayers, we all want to get rid of waste and fraud in the government.

But the question I would ask you to think about tonight, as you hear from the people in this room,

what happens when you take a chainsaw to our federal government? We should note we requested

an interview with a Doge representative through the White House. They did not make anyone available,

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