Losing a job is hard. It can make you question your self-worth, strain relationships, upend plans for the future and make it hard to pay bills and get by. 

A lot of federal workers could now be confronting some of these predicaments. From the National Park Service to FEMA, thousands of people have been laid off as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to “make agencies more efficient.” 

Under the leadership of Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency is slashing jobs across more than a dozen agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Ten year Marine Corps veteran Andrew Lennox joins the show. He was working as an administrative officer in the primary care department in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor and is now without a job due to DOGE cuts.

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