Unions, workers explore ways to fight back amid Musk's effort to cut down the federal workforce
Timothy McLaughlin, a national representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 federal workers nationwide, said in a phone interview that he receives calls daily from New York-based employees fearing for their jobs or confused by the conflicting directives from DOGE.
There were 53,600 federal employees in New York State at the end of last year, according to the Congressional Research Service.