Trump axing federal workforce

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00:00But for you, what has been the stand-up moments in Trump's first 100 days so far?

00:07I think for me, obviously, there's threatening to take Greenland by force, which kind of came out of nowhere, I think.

00:15And along with annexing Canada, you know, there was a lot of empire-building kind of rhetoric around that.

00:20But for me, it was the firing of over 120,000 federal workers.

00:27For your first 100 days, you know, decimating the workforce and increasing unemployment just seemed like a really foolhardy way to begin.

00:39Also, the dismantling of the Department of Education.

00:42Now, obviously, each state sets their own curriculum.

00:46So the Department of Education doesn't oversee the curriculum.

00:48But they do oversee things like grants for low-income families, people, students with disabilities.

00:57And so there'll be so much anxiety for those families hearing that the Department's going to be dismantled.

01:03And they're going to be wondering, well, how are we going to get our Pell grants?

01:07Where are we going to get the special dispensations for our children from?

01:11So a lot of anxiety created in 100 days.