Federal workers dismissed by DOGE SET to attend Trump’s joint address

• Several recently dismissed federal workers are expected to attend Trump’s joint address in the Congress.
• They will be there as guests of Democratic members of the Congress.
• Bi spoke with one of them, whose work was to eliminate waste in health insurance.

In February, Matthew Fessler was one of the thousands of probationary employees dismissed by the Trump administration in the midst of cuts led to Doge on the federal workforce.

Tuesday evening, he will be seated in the gallery overlooking the room of the room, assistant to the address of President Donald Trump to a joint session of the congress alongside several other former federal workers whose employment was dismissed in the first weeks of his administration.

All participate as a guest of democratic senators and members of the chamber who use Trump’s speech – a television address at the national level similar to the union state – to highlight the impact of the first measures of its administration to reshape the bureaucracy and the flow of expenses of federal expenses.

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, brought two recently dismissed New Yorkers from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Veterans Department. Senator Ruben Gallego de L’Arizona brings a disabled veteran who was dismissed from his role as security expert in the Department of Internal Security. The representative Ayanna Pressley brings a constituent of Massachusetts who worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Elon Musk, the man who directs a large part of the accusation behind the layoffs as a de facto chief of the White House office, will also be there.

Fessler, a former 35 -year -old health insurance specialist at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will be the guest of the representative April McClain Delaney, a first -year democratic legislator of a district of Maryland near Washington, DC.

“I have run on common sense, common ground, and I really agree that our government should work effectively and effectively for the American people,” McClain Delaney told Bi in an interview on Monday. “But I think that Trump administration’s actions so far have been marked by confusion and chaos.”

To Fessler, there is a particular irony to his dismissal, which, according to him, came after he was told that he had “obtained exceptional results” during a performance in early January. His work essentially consisted in eliminating waste and fraud in the Medicare part, the part of the program which helps to pay the drugs on the prescription of the beneficiaries, keeping a trace of inappropriate payments.

“These are actually the people you really need to achieve the things they claim to do,” said McClain Delaney. “But in fact, they are all smoke and mirrors.”

Fessler said that if he could send a message to Trump and Musk, it would be to “make sure you are aware of the implications for the actions you take”.

The Trump administration has largely characterized the cuts as necessary to reduce a bureaucracy which they consider to be swollen, and the spokesperson for the White House, Harrison Fields, has laid the efforts of the Democratic legislators as dishonest in a declaration to Bi for this story.

“Demanding the American people for political points is normal for the course, but it is not surprising to come from a party that prefers to show themselves rather than solving problems,” said Fields.