Like him or not, voted for him or not, there is no doubt that Donald Trump ... alongside Elon Musk ... wasted no time trying to re-make the government.
The executive orders ... the court cases ... the purge of federal employees. Mass firings over the last two months.
Welcome to our KNX special "Fired Feds," where we're going to give some names, voices and stories to the tens of thousands of federal workers who have been pushed out ... as a lot of them fight to keep those jobs.
You'll be hearing from Southern California-based federal workers who lost their jobs from the DOGE cuts and are now dealing with a lot of uncertainty .... for their careers, their families and their futures.
Let's do some numbers first... so we can get a look at the scope...
--While there is no official count of how many workers have been laid off, estimates from USA Today are expecting at least 100-thousand federal workers ..... when all is said and done.
--That's on top of the roughly 75-thousand who took the offered buyouts and voluntarily left.
--There are an estimated 3-million total federal workers ... and that's not including active duty military or the millions of contract employees.
-- Outside of Washington D.C., the biggest concentration of federal employees ... are here in California.
Now ... here's who we have in studio tonight...
Ellen Willis-Norton was a biologist with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, within the Department of the Interior ... where she focused on preserving ocean fisheries ...
Kenan Chan was a biological services technician, a diver & a park ranger at Channel Islands National Park in the National Parks Service ... within the Department of the Interior ....
Liesl Drew was an anthropologist and tribal engagement specialist, working with California native tribes on shoreline/offshore energy projects, at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, within the Department of Interior ...
