Claire Bergstresser verlor ihren Job im US-Bauministerium im Zuge der Entlassungswelle unter US-Regierungsberater Elon Musk. Sie konnte zwar auf ihren Posten zurückkehren, fürchtet jetzt jedoch um ihre Zukunft – wie tausende andere Betroffene der radikalen Kürzungspolitik unter Präsident Donald Trump.
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00:00I have reached out to the unemployment people. I have done that. So now I am going to apply to some jobs.
00:20And, I don't know if you saw, but the court order said that we had to return to work.
00:26We are hearing down the pipeline that they are going to try to get rid of as many of us as possible.
00:31And so even though we have to be reinstated because they didn't correctly get rid of us,
00:36that doesn't mean that they are not going to try to correctly get rid of us over the next coming months.
00:43I have never seen so much fear in my friends over politics, over things that are happening on Capitol Hill.
00:51I have friends who are going through medical crisis because they are wondering if people in their lives are going to get arrested.
00:59For not doing anything wrong, just for being part of a community that is not going to get arrested.
01:07Not doing anything wrong, just for being part of a community that Republicans don't like.
01:38About Valentine's Day, we got letters notifying us that we are being in a reduction of force, a RIF.
01:46So that created a lot of confusion for us. It kind of made the world stop, to be honest.
01:56It was hard. What was harder was having to go with colleagues to pack up our office.
02:02It was like somebody was trying to erase us. But the thing is, it's really not possible.
02:11I mean, this is a calling that several thousand of us had. And that calling remains.
02:18And then relax your legs behind you. Gaze forward once more.
02:26We can't control what happens with the government, but we can control our breath and we can control our bodies.
02:32So for one hour, every week, we are offering the space to federal government workers to do just that.
02:39To get into their homes, to get into their homes, to get into their homes, to get into their homes.
02:47You can feel people supporting each other. And you can also feel the difficulty.
02:53The difficulty of being in a situation like this.
02:57It's not easy.
02:59It's not easy.
03:01It's not easy.
03:03It's not easy.
03:05It's not easy.
03:07It's not easy.
03:09It's not easy.
03:11It's not easy.
03:13The difficulty.
03:15The sadness.
03:17Perhaps maybe even depression, right?
03:21The loss of self, sense of self.
03:24Maybe even confidence.
03:27A couple of people remarked on that.
03:29Yeah, it's tough.