his slash and burn of bureaucracy and now federal workers caught up in Trump’s mass layoffs are unsure of what to do next..Goods afternoon, everyone.. I’m Kira Phillips. .Thousands of government workers are are reeling from the chaos of the T-Musk Musk effect and its aggressive effort to shrink the federal workforce..Wee just have no information. We were just basically tossed out on the streets and so that has been angering and heartbreaking and our pay stopped the day we got the termination letter so we’re all without a paycheck as of
Tuesday and today sources inside the Federal Aviation Administration tell ABC that hundreds of workers were let go despite massive staffing issues at the FAA, tax ,neon’s president calling the decision unconscionable,, especially in the wake of three deadly plane accidents in the past month. Also today,, billionaire Elon Musk is is targeting access to detailed financial information abius. U.S. taxpayers at thIRS.RS. Orr Jay O’Brien usually covers the hill but today he is in in the middle of a protest over them assess layoffs. Jay, tell us about where you
are yeah we are standing just in view of the capital uh Kira and you can hear the chant actually go up around me of do your job and that is in reference to the protesters tell us here the people who work in this building right here the United States capital we’ve also heard of chant after chant of where is Congress asking for some kind of congressional oversight into this massive overhaul of the federal government that President Trump and Elon Musk are engineering uh there are federal workers here in the crowd some.
Demonstrators protest mass government layoffs outside of US
of them have even been fired in recent daises, they tell us, and one of the sentiments we hear from those here is, of course, is opposition to this effort of Trump to overhaul the federal government, but lassos, sense that this effort of Trump to overhaul the federal government, but also a sense that this countryfy, Feder yet. orders, who say it’s their understanding from talking to their colleagues and seeing these actions that this is only one of the early phases of teste ruminations, Kira and they are preparing for many more,, so
Elon Musk and Doge are are now seeking access to personal taxpay. data. Why need that information? that even leglet gal? this is reporting at was driven by our an clarity. ra and Elon Musk and Doge have said that they want access to that information to try to look for what they say is fraud in the tax system and other allegations of impropriety like that but this is data, as has as been pointed out in here porting, that is so closely guarded not just in the federal government but inside the.
Federal workers across United States push back against Elon
IRS itself and it underscores the fact that this has happened in federal agency after federally agency.. Doge staffers Ares are either requesting access or being warn edit they may request access to sensitive information.. I can tell you in my own reporting something similar has played out at the Department of Energy,, which holds US nuclear secrets.. There was an internal email that went out to Department of Energy employees saying that if any Doge personnel asked for access to those sensitive classified areas that house US nuclear secrets,
Tell those Doge personnel that they don’t have access and now the Department of Energy has said no one who who has deed has gotten access to nuclear secretases, but secrets,, but it underscores the fact that a lot of these agencies have very sensitive information and they’re being put in a position now that they’ve never been put in before. K Jay O’Brien sight there there in the middle of the protest. We’ll continue to check in with you, Jay.
