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The recent wave of mass firings hit federal workers responding to the nation’s growing bird flu outbreak, protecting crops from damaging pests and ensuring the safety of pet food and medicine, among other critical duties.

“To say funding for 9/11 first responders is government waste is outrageous and insulting,” Schumer said in a news release about the joint letter.

Employees at the Holtsville branch of the Internal Revenue Service said staff reductions were ongoing Thursday, as the Trump administration moves to downsize the federal government and terminate 6,000 IRS employees nationwide.

National Grid on Friday made its “best and final” contract offer to its unionized workforce of nearly 1,200 employees, who will review it in coming weeks and take a vote to accept or reject it.

Hundreds of thousands of workers across the United States went on strike in 2024—from health care workers in California to public school teachers in Massachusetts to telecommunications workers in the South.

The recent FAA job cuts included at least two workers on Long Island and two in Queens, according to the union who represents them. The federal cuts come amid recent frightening incidents, including the mid-air collision in the D.C.