For more on those federal workers turn candidates. On the Supreme Court restoring abortion pill access for now and the rush by some states to redraw their congressional maps, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo. That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. It's great to see you both. Let's pick up, Amy, with what we just heard from those

former federal workers. What does it tell you that these now candidates wanted to come back

into government this time as decision makers? This time, and they made the distinction very

clearly that we were public servants. We weren't elected to these jobs. Now we're asking to go

in front of voters and actually earned the place from voters to do this job.

Look, I think what's interesting about this whole debate over the federal workforce was that

if you asked voters just broadly, do you think it's a good idea to be more efficient

in delivering government services?

They would say yes.

But Doge's, the reason Doge was unpopular with voters was that it felt like it was so haphazard

and it was done in a way that wasn't really well thought through, wasn't really well crafted.

Now, whether these candidates can appeal to voters who are so sort of disgruntled with government writ

large is going to be interesting.

Because even though they were public servants, I think a lot of people hear the term, I was a government

worker and associate that with politics, even though that's obviously not what they did.

Yeah. Tam, what about you?

Yeah, I do think that this is, in many ways, a logical step for people who suddenly had

more time on their hands to think about ways they wanted to give back or ways to do public service in sort of a different realm.

This isn't the first time that you have seen people go and run for Congress after a run-in,

for instance, with President Trump.

You have Congressman Vindman in Virginia, who was the whistleblower in the first Trump impeachment,

who then was booted from his job and then ran for office successfully.

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