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DPI - March 24, 2025
ICYMI: Thanks to the Musk-Trump Administration, Federal Workers are Left Out to Dry One federal worker: “It sucks to be the punching bag”
Chicago, IL — In case you missed the Chicago Tribune's reporting, federal employees looking to regain a semblance of normalcy after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s cruel mass firings, discussed the chaos inflicted on their lives at a state job fair last week.
DPI- March 24, 2025
“In addition to providing invaluable support to our nation, federal employees depend on a stable job to support themselves and their families—just like any other working Illinoisan. While co-presidents Musk and Trump heartlessly slash jobs and Illinois Republicans dodge their constituents, Illinois Dems are fighting for our federal workforce."
Key excerpts from the Chicago Tribune: At state job fair, DOGE cuts hit home for federal workers By: Talia Soglin Like almost all the employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development dismantled by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, he is on paid administrative leave. “I don’t think there’s any way my job’s coming back,” the federal worker said in the bustling conference room at Malcolm X College in Chicago on Thursday.
DPI - March 24, 2025
Almost 90,000 federal employees live in Illinois, according to estimates by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute. At the job fair, some of those workers spoke to the chaos and confusion the DOGE cuts had wrought on their agencies, themselves and their families. “It sucks to be the punching bag,” said a man who identified himself as a current IRS employee. * The USAID employee bought a home in Washington last year, and said his wife is pregnant. He feels he might not have a choice but to move back to the Chicago area, where he went to college and where he and his wife have family. “Honestly,” he said, “we might have to end up living in my in-laws’ basement.” Raven DeVaughn, director of the state’s Department of Central Management Services, had a simple message for the 700 job seekers who attended the fair: “Civil service is an important and respected profession in Illinois,” she said. “We’re hiring.”
