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My name is Victoria Delano.
My name is Keith Kamir.
My name is Brett Taylor.
I live in Birmingham, Alabama.
I'm located in Milford, Pennsylvania.
I was a social work associate with the Rocky Mountain VA.
And I worked for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights as an equal opportunity specialist.
I was actually working for the Internal Revenue Service, the infamous IRS.
Victoria, Keith, and Brett are among thousands of government employees who've been laid off as the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce in the name of efficiency. They say that the work they used to do could be at risk of falling through the cracks, like Victoria's job of investigating alleged civil rights violations in local schools.
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