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My question was simple. I wanted to understand what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing to this country, up close.

Hey, I'm an environmental planner in South Carolina.

Hi, this is Sarah.

I am a federal health care contract worker.

My name is Meg from Washington, D.C.

I own a pet care company, and I figured out how many of our clients were USAID workers.

My name's Zane. I live in North Carolina. I work in Carbon Chapter Research and we get federal

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When I hear about federal workers being fired, or tariffs or contracts being cut short,

I always think there's some person on the other end of this decision.

How are they doing?

Not great, it turns out.

My wife has worked for the Department of Agriculture just short of 20 years.

She spends every day worrying about her job.

You know, everybody just wakes up every day, you know, in fear that they're going to lose their job.

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