If you ever worked for a federal agency that DOGE has on the chopping block, especially the lesser known ones, please tell us about the work they do on behalf of the American people. We need to understand what is being lost.
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Researches and scientists laid off from federal agencies and those who have lost funding at Universities are being courted by China. A brain drain is under way.
I worked at SSA.
We help grieving families with death benefits, people with a cancer diagnosis to apply for disability compensation so that they wouldn't be homeless while they received chemo, parents of severely disabled children who get SSI to help with their care and needs.
It is so much more.
As the parent of one of those disabled kids, thank you. Your colleagues have always been polite and as helpful as the rules allowed. I know you all care about us.
I also worked for SSA as a field office manager. Don’t underestimate the importance of local offices. Knowing the place is often the key to providing tailored assistance to people who really need it. Most who visited my office were not at all conversant in English and needed compassionate help.
I needed to go to a field office to be named representative payee after my dad stopped paying all his bills and lost his house in a sheriff sale. I am his legal guardian now and was able to get his house back. Grateful for our local office.
After 37 years with the Forest Service, I can say many Americans know little about the agency. National Forests are outdoor recreation hotspots and critical to addressing a changing climate. The State and Private Forestry branch provides state-of-the-art support to States and private land owners.
The Research branch provides cutting edge science in natural resources management. International programs provides developed and developing countries professional and technical advice on natural resources management.
There are so many competing interests in the interurban interface and I recognize the interagency work done to educate and partner in stewardship practices and to better understand the health and movement of our forests. Thank you for your service.
1. The Democratic Party should be hiring top-level officials who were let go, to consult against the GOP cuts in their area of expertise.
2. Democrats should also hold a DAILY Dem presser, with all Media that are excluded from the White House, held after the 'official' one. Call out the BS daily
People need to start equating what Elon Musk is doing to playing Jenga. They keep pulling here a little there a little and eventually it’s going to topple. Everyone needs to start saying Jenga; people understand it.
Are any Dem pols paying attention to what they're doing? I guess they never plan to ever charge people for any of these crimes either? Maybe if they'd insisted on law & order before, the coup could've been stopped & they wouldn't have the opportunity to do this now.
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The Forest Service offers a chainsaw course called Developing Thinking Sawyers. The program teaches chainsaw techniques and complex bucking and falling operations. Combat engineers use chainsaws to build and remove barricades, create landing zones, and for complex rescue operations and firefighting.
i contracted with DOJ to provide therapy for folks in the federal probation system.the program i worked in helped people successfully complete their supervised release and become safe, law-abiding and productive citizens.
I didn't work for the government, but I worked with several government and state agencies on terrorism response plans. Now most of them are just gone. :(
My husband is a therapist (MSW) and works at the VA hospital . He does therapy with vets and their families . Many vets have ptsd , substance use disorders and other do occuring mental health diagnoses .
Helps veterans and the families and communities they live in be stronger and safer .
We will need to start quitting what Elon Musk is doing to playing Jenga. They keep pulling here a little there a little here a little there and eventually it’s going to topple. Everyone needs to start saying Jenga people understand it.
Totally! Can you imagine how absurd it was looking back Joe's threatening to pack the courts lol OMG it would be a departure from norms and there would be no going back. Dems suck they have no survival instinct and it is terrifying.
Unconventional data point....THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY RED TOURISM IN DC. IF YOU LEGIT took a E.Jean Crook from prison and lifted him to victory in the White House WOULDN'T YOU JUST BE GOING FUCKING CRAZY EVERYDAY?! LOL There are no happy republican tourists in DC. No red hats. HOW. IS. THAT. POSSIBLE?
I've been highly concerned about Trump fraudulently winning, too. But how could this possibly be investigated given the huge tech hurdles and GOP having all four gov. branches, including Musk?
Reverse Musk it - have @mcuban.bsky.social put out a bounty for voter fraud $500 per case. I know that half of Florida also voted in Ohio or PA. The numbers don't add up. Florida became red because people moved down from the rust belt and yet the exact amount of GOP voters stayed on the rolls up N
It’s been several decades since I worked for USDA’s FSIS (Food Safety Inspection Service), but anyone who tries messing with it better read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” first.
There are historical reasons these agencies exist for the American people’s benefit, not the gov’t employees who literally are put “on the line” to protect us.
I was an investigator with FDA. Most of my work involved inspection of physicians who conduct research involving drugs and medical devices. This is a necessary step in the product approval process. I recently retired but my former colleagues are expecting a 40% reduction.
Republicans, don’t cower to the traitor Trump. History will judge you not just by what you do, but by what you fail to stand up to. Honor your love and respect for this country—speak out.
I wrote you a response as a contractor who worked with our dedicated scientists, I’d just like to say firing 6000 of our best makes me truly emotional bc we will NEVER get this talent back, we were so blessed to have had them, this makes me physically ill to know the depth of knowledge we are losing
In the 1990s RIFs at the USDA NRCS we were concerned with the loss of Institutional Knowledge in each individual who was pre retirement age. It was not in any manual, but time was needed to transfer to next gen or be lost. It was lost ...
And for what? More f’ing tax cuts for the uber rich? This is a travesty that will devastate us for decades! We must stop this attack on our scientific community & all of our Government workers! Pls🙏💙🙏💙
I contracted w the division of NIH researchers for vaccine development. All multiple Phds, MDs, multi cultural, beyond brilliant ppl. Knowing I was clearly the stupidest person in the room as well as their coach I had to focus on my mission, which was helping them to communicate with extreme impact
Importance of their work and the immediate/extended benefits it produces for the US & the world. They’re Scientists, the best of the best, but not communicators. I was humbled and blown away by their work and dedication, it was a privilege to serve them and to have had the opportunity to help them.🙏
Bonneville Power Administration provides power to the Pacific Northwest. It is currently being "eviscerate" as one employee told me. With the GSA cards basically cancelled they cannot buy gas to drive out & maintain the transmission lines rights-of-way or facilities. https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/20/bonneville-job-cuts-immediate-risks/
I am an entire generation of young Dem staffers who worked on the Hill between 2005 and 2016. We never got another job and so America has no bench of dems to win office, volunteer or run campaigns. We are victims of Barack Obama's poorly run network that threw out all the babies with the bathwater.
I see you guys think I'm joking. Haven't you ever wondered why we only have Gavin & Wes Moore from coast to coast from the School Board all the way up to the presidency and liberals don't even like Gavin or Wes. We are screwed because our leaders are egomaniacs who won't invest in a blue cult.
DOGE set it up so they can directly email all fed employees with their cringe, unprofessional emails. There's a lot of fear in management about what will happen if they draw DOGE's attention by defying demands unless they have a solid case that the demands are illegal.
I was a Radiation Protection Technician at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Without people on the front lines monitoring and capturing radioactive material at the national labs, a release to the public would happen. People would get sick and some would die.
I was a commissioned officer in NOAA (one of the country’s eight uniformed services). I operated the vessels that map the ocean floor and conduct oceanographic research.
I worked for AdoptUSKids, a federal program funded through the Children’s Bureau, AFC and HHS. I led the design for their national photolisting site that has helped place thousands of children in foster care with adoptive families. Not sure if they were impacted by DOGE, but it’s an amazing program.
NOAA maintains satellite tracking networks that help find ships/sailors lost at sea!
We'll happily send the Coast Guard to find you, but without EPIRB it'll take a lot longer.
I scuba dive in remote areas- EPIRB is truly lifesaving tech we bolt to our gear sometimes at the request of the boat we're on. I can't believe they ruined that!
To be clear, I don't know that it's been affected as I didn't work directly on EPIRB program but I gave it as an example bc it's such an important service.
I was a bank examiner at one of the sister agencies to the FDIC. Our work recovers billions of dollars in restitution for Americans every year from banks who broke the law and stole from them.
A family member used to work for a project with either USDA or Army Corps of Engineers that was trying to stop the US from having another dust bowl. It was axed in its entirety weeks ago because it had “environment” in the name.
2. managed volunteers, handled administrative duties, managed logistics for NPS staff during residence training, managed travel regulations, and years later managed a WASO budget and balanced a $15mn budget to close out with $200.00 on the table. I worked my ASS off.
NPS. I started as a volunteer, then Pathways student hire, then temo part time, then finlly gained permanent. I cleaned bathrooms, led hikes, provided interpretive information, loaded camper gear on boats, provided first aid, led volunteer students in restoration projects...
My wife takes care of veterans who gave their best years serving the U.S.for the V.A. These men and women often performed tasks unspeakable to most,often with horrific, lifelong consequences.
STAND UP FOR YOUR PEOPLE!
Isn't it sad that we're asking to be told what's lost We clearly can see the multitude if what's being lost. Like democracy for one! Why are we going to the simplest thing like oh we don't have that anymore gee too bad - bad bad Republicans! Shame on them! Tell me what that accomplishes?
I work for USFWS, our program does habitat restoration in conjunction with private landowners, other parts of the FWS operate the National Wildlife Refuge System
I just went to the local Emergency Preparedness spotter training and all subsequent trainings are frozen until the end of April per funding freezes. The director has no idea what will happen.
My husband worked his whole career for NASA. He was a forest ecologist & climate scientist in the Earth Sciences Division. Studied forests from satellites. Mapping the forests of our planet, assessing their health, documenting deforestation. Sad work, for a dedicated tree lover. But critical.
Where? When? Me too. Final 10 years at USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Wastershed Conservation and Landscape Ecology in California. Retired now.
My husband worked at the NASA Goddard facility in Greenbelt, MD. Building 22. His work was primarily developing & analyzing remote sensing data on topics like canopy structure. Retired a few years ago. Worried about his colleagues still working there.
After working as a NPS Ranger (Redwood, USS Arizona Memorial, GGNRA, Muir Woods), I went back for my MS/PhD and worked at the NASA Ames Research Center in Earth System Sciences in the 1990s using aircraft based remote sensing for fire mapping and alien plant species invasion into Maui rainforest.
Worked at SSA YEARS ago as a Service Rep (may be called something else now): Answer questions by phone/in person Interview applicants Rev apps for accuracy Investigate situations/Resolve issues
Determine eligibility for benefits Analyze benefit pay history Help clients that are receiving benefits
I was Deputy CoS and Comms Director at NOAA. I could write a book about what they do that people don’t know from the floor of the ocean to the the surface of the sun. Example they have an office that watches for sun flares which can set off an impact to power grids!
NOAA has been an invaluable resource. I saw a post recently from someone who escaped the USSR that democracy is to today's Americans as water is to fish, and that we would not know its importance until it is gone. Thank you for your service.
I was at NOAA 2017-2021 now in the private sector. Trying to use my small voice to highlight the work NOAA does as I used to say from the floor of the ocean to the surface of the sun and everything between. It was one of my favorite jobs because of the amazing f people
Even if you are not directly harmed by these cuts, I recognize that there is a body of work under attack. I hope we will be able to maintain a nexus of care and attention. Your career is aspirational.
The State Department has experts who craft the language for international treaties; I collaborated with them in negotiations to ensure that US seafarers on merchant vessels & in fisheries worldwide would eventually be able to collect all of the pension due to them, regardless of where they'd worked.
My brother, USAF Captain, worked for the NGA as an Analyst supporting combat soldiers/DOD. Spy satellite work, top clearance. His colleague was instrumental in catching Bin Laden. Now contractor working on managing missile detecting ground systems. He thinks his work is protected. I doubt it.
Joyce, American NGO’s partner with USAID implementing effective lifesaving work at a low cost. The destruction of USAID is severely affecting these NGO’s too.
I made sure that the full faith and credit guaranty backing Ginnie Mae mortgage backed securities sold around the world to investors was executed faithfully by issuers (banks and IMBs) every month in order to protect borrowers and taxpayers. The outstanding portfolio currently stands at $2.7T.
My spouse works for an immigration aid agency that has had its aid frozen. One part of the agency works with Mexican sex traffic victims so once the money runs out who will be helping these poor victims?
Well I worked for an Army base under DOD which isn’t one of the lesser ones but as an IT Specialist I could work until midnight hardening servers to keep hackers like Musk & Putin’s tech goons out of classified data. Now I find that everything has changed & it’s open season for them.
I was a social worker in the HUD/VASH program at the VA. I helped homeless veterans get back into housing, find jobs, access mental health and substance abuse services, and regain their independence. I loved working with my vets ♥️
I appreciate the support, but I was not fired. I worked there about 8 years ago and left of my own accord. I was pregnant, my husband was preparing to do back to back deployments, and I had no family in the state where we were stationed at the time. Hopefully I didn't misunderstand Joyce's request ♥️
Me too. To be clear, I was at Central Office. I missed working directly with the Veterans. I started out in the Domiciliary, always working with Veterans experiencing homelessness, worked briefly with the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans program, then went to VACO for HUD-VASH.
I’m also worried about the cuts at HUD - they provide the housing vouchers used in HUD-VASH. I’m very concerned about this very successful program and especially the staffs at VA and HUD that make it so successful for Veterans who are experiencing homelessness. Hugs to you.
I’m so sorry to hear of this. I also worked in HUD-VASH - now retired. Providing Veterans with housing, supports, services, and helping them to access needed resources was the honor of my life. Supporting this program was a joy.
We need to start a # WHERE ARE THE HEROES OF DEMOCRACY campaign to pressure and embolden our elected officials in Congress, of all parties, to work together to fight and disrupt the destruction of our government and our country.
I’m a VA RN, I don’t think fElon would be able to fathom what I do every week. However, the Veterans of America know and they will not be happy if the VA is next on the chopping block.
I really hope supervisors and managers have archived as much info as they could. If they can even put the data somewhere in the system that Musk and his hackers can't find.
My BIL works for HUD in the Seattle office. They are pretty much shutting the entire thing down. Expecting term notices this week. They are the extension of FEMA in case of natural disasters. They take over when FEMA has done all they can.
I'm sorry for your BIL. I can't believe they gutted the Region 10 office. I fear my disabled young adult daughter will never have a shot at housing in Seattle.
I worked as a medical writer for VA research for 20+ years. I summarized research findings so senior leadership would know what healthcare policies and practices worked and what didn’t, so they could provide the best care possible to veterans.
Look, we already know there are at least 2 #RussianAssets leading the #FederalGovernment the best way to assure they have #NoPower over #Anyone is if the remaining #FederalWorkforce went on #Strike until #Congress did THEIR JOBS to #Impeach and #Convict bypassing #Corrupt #SCOTUS
I’m a substance abuse professional who had a contract to serve govt employees. The idea was to treat in the least restrictive environment, avoiding more expensive placements, saving taxpayer funds. Program was cut.
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We help grieving families with death benefits, people with a cancer diagnosis to apply for disability compensation so that they wouldn't be homeless while they received chemo, parents of severely disabled children who get SSI to help with their care and needs.
It is so much more.
2. Democrats should also hold a DAILY Dem presser, with all Media that are excluded from the White House, held after the 'official' one. Call out the BS daily
Instead, what typically happens is that ordinary political "top-level" appointees get hired by policy thinktanks.
https://bsky.app/profile/altcdc.bsky.social/post/3ljfza5du6k26
Helps veterans and the families and communities they live in be stronger and safer .
7 million dems missing from the polls nothing to see.
Local news is covering the disaster:
https://www.4029tv.com/article/arkansas-doge-shutdowns/64023005?fbclid=IwY2xjawIzQr1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRgao7d_a1RFbW_k7kWiccCk6kuIMiRw-7NBjMdHXJOD5Z5PHm1qNH8-hQ_aem_2_uWmttwA9coSElJl077kQ
Attention! We need your help read this tweet. If you are affected please let us know so we understand the scope!
We'll happily send the Coast Guard to find you, but without EPIRB it'll take a lot longer.
I was a bank examiner at one of the sister agencies to the FDIC. Our work recovers billions of dollars in restitution for Americans every year from banks who broke the law and stole from them.
Whole thread linked here for my explainer.
Our veterans deserve better than what is happening under Trump.
STAND UP FOR YOUR PEOPLE!
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The 1:1 aids medicare/medicaid pays for.
Both are so different depending on what the individuals need.
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