My name is Victoria Delano.

My name is Keith Kamere.

My name is Brett Taylor.

I live in Birmingham, Alabama.

I'm located in Milford, Pennsylvania.

I was a social work associate with the Rocky Mountain VA.

And I worked for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights as an equal

opportunity specialist. I was actually working for the Internal Revenue Service, the infamous IRS.

Victoria, Keith, and Brett are among thousands of government employees who've been laid off,

as the Trump administration slashes the

federal workforce in the name of efficiency.

They say that the work they used to do could be at risk of falling through the cracks,

like Victoria's job, of investigating alleged civil rights violations in local schools.

My co-workers who were terminated were immediately, just like me, cut out of the system,

cut out of having any ability to get into the case management system and assist with any transfer of those cases.

Those cases are just lost in the abyss now.

Brett, who worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs, worries about a VA with fewer hands to help homeless vets.

Not only would the vaccine being crisis, but of course the workers would feel like they're in crisis too,

because now you're doubled or tripled their workload.

And Keith, who was at the IRS, says productivity is suffering.

And communicated with one of my colleagues just a couple days ago, and I said,

how this things going? He says, we're just trying to figure it all out,

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