As President Donald Trump's cost-cutting agenda continues through the government, Democratic

governors are now looking to recruit fired federal workers to their states.

The state of New York has launched a campaign for those impacted by Doge cuts, including

billboards in New York City's Moynihan Train Hall and in train and metro stations throughout

Washington, D.C. joining me now to discuss

that effort and the other ways that New York is pushing back against the Trump administration

is New York Governor Kathy Hokel. Governor, welcome back to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us.

Thank you. Let's start with that effort then to recruit some of those fired federal workers.

Have you had fired federal workers applying for those jobs? How many? And have you been able to hire any?

No, we certainly have. In fact, a couple weeks ago, I did a roundtable inviting a number of recently fired federal employees from the New York City area to come.

And one of them was a father of four.

He had done four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He worked at the VA. He was one week

from ending his probation, and he was dismissed, and he was so upset and distraught about it.

And I gathered others who were just really still reeling from the unexpectedness of it.

They never thought this would happen to them.

So I told them we would take care of these individuals.

I literally have almost 7,000 open jobs in state government.

We are not back to our pre-pandemic levels, and we certainly have openings in law enforcement

and education and social work.

A lot of issues we want to take care of our citizens.

So I think it's a great opportunity.

I was literally meeting with President Trump in the White House last week.

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