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A lot of journalism right now is focused on statistics and data sets that can skip over the human cost of policy. The Trump Administration's efforts to drastically reduce the federal workforce has upended lives and livelihoods across the country, for the worse. And those affected aren't just numbers, they are neighbors and friends, parents and children, taxpayers and voters. In Albuquerque, New Mexico – about 1,650 miles from the nation’s capital – Kaiya Brown wept as she said goodbye to her professors, laid off in a wave of funding cuts. In Jenks, Oklahoma – over 1,100 miles from Washington and the White House – Patricia Gross watched her small grant-writing business lose all of its contracts seemingly overnight. And in Moscow, Idaho – 2,000 miles and nine states away from Capitol Hill – Ivy Dickinson learned she’d soon be furloughed from her dream job helping local farmers. None of these women worked in the federal government. They weren’t bureaucrats or Beltway insiders. But Trump’s crusade to shrink the federal government – an effort outsourced to billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency – has impacted them all the same. This series from the team at U.S. News & World Report is committed to highlighting the real effects that policies have on our communities. Devon Haynie avi gupta Laura Mannweiler Elliott Davis
Trump declared war on Washington, D.C. But Americans across the country are paying the price. https://lnkd.in/dpziapax
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4dWe need more stories like these - stories told by our neighbors and friends - stories reminding us what we know already to be true, how drastic and damaging the actions of this administration have already been and continue to be in their negative impact on regular people ...Thank you for sharing their stories...