We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. Co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. We heard in our last episode from Atul Gawande. who was a senior figure at USAID until days before the Trump administration.
began dismantling it. And throwing it into a wood chipper. Across the federal government. The number of federal workers Fired under Trump. This is reported by CNN.
stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of those workers have turned to a website called We the Builders. It's a resource for federal employees who've lost their jobs or Who have a whistleblower complaint or who don't know how to follow conflicting instructions about Musk's email demands.
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