Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge

Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge

They were fired with an afternoon email. Denied their pensions. Told their health care ended immediately. One worker got the termination notice an hour outside her new duty station after driving cross-country for five days. Another was ordered to stay home with full pay — psychological warfare designed to inflict maximum humiliation.  A USAID employee wept, not for herself but for the children overseas who would now die of starvation because foo…