# Fired federal workers to join Democrats at Trump's speech to Congress

WASHINGTON − When  looks out to the audience for his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, he'll see several federal workers fired as a result of his administration's purge of the federal bureaucracy.

Several Democratic lawmakers plan to bring federal workers impacted by  Department of Government Efficiency, which has aggressively  and cut around 100,000 people from the federal workforce during Trump's first six weeks in office.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will bring Alissa Ellman, an Army veteran with a rare cancer related to her military service who worked for the Veterans Affairs agency in Buffalo, New York, before she was fired last week. Schumer will also bring Tiffany Ramos, who worked at a rural development office for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Syracuse and was fired last month.

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Senator Tina Smith, D-M.N., will bring former Voyageurs National Park ranger Kate Severson, who worked for the National Park Service for more than a decade before .

Former U.S. Forest Service program management specialist Jamie Werner, who received an award "for excellent work" shortly before being fired in February, will join Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., will bring Luke Graziani, a veteran who worked as a public affairs officer at the VA Medical Center in the Bronx, and Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., will bring his constituent Nancy Bolan, a health researcher who was working for the U.S. Agency for International Development before it was shut down and 

Trump has aimed to implement "a  of the Federal bureaucracy," and has argued that the public and members of his administration are "thrilled" by the changes.

The public is divided on the cuts, according to recent polling.  conducted Feb. 26-28 found 51% approved of Trump's efforts to cut staff at government agencies and 49% disapproved.  from Feb. 24-26 found 55% of respondents said the cuts were doing more harm than good, and 39% of respondents had a favorable opinion of Musk.

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