Wala Blegay

Because people are seeing, we've never seen this before.

Like 20 years ago, this was the middle America where they were taking away those factory jobs and those factory jobs were leaving the country.

Now, it's us.

We are—federal workers are losing jobs, and they cannot find anything that will pay them or give them anything before.

And the ones who are keeping their jobs, they feel that they have been—pretty much nobody appreciates them.

And meanwhile this is happening, we're spending a billion dollars a day in the Iran war while we've got people who have been told their jobs were cut to save money.

Yeah, but understand, because the employees, if they hear this, they will just cringe, right?

Because the reality is that as you're waiting, there's a late bill, there's bill payments that need to be paid.

Yeah, and then they are looking at back pay, but the reality is that...

Getting all those late fees, waiting for things to come, money come.

I mean, there were people that called and said, I know it's a shutdown, but while I'm about to get my light turned off because we're already behind.

So is that then the federal contractors?

Yes, they don't get job.

And for federal contracts, even worse, we have about in Prince George's County alone, we have about a seventy five thousand people.

federal workers.

And in each county, they have a big number.

But what's even bigger is the federal contractors.

And federal contractors don't have the same protection.

So they don't get the notice.

A lot of them are getting last-minute notice that the contracts have been ended.