Article 6YA6A Fired federal workers lobby for help on Capitol Hill – is anyone listening?

Fired federal workers lobby for help on Capitol Hill – is anyone listening?

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Chris Stein in Washington
from US news | The Guardian on (#6YA6A)

Democrats have been receptive to the Tuesday Group' but the Republicans who control Congress are looking the other way

The Tuesday Group was feeling something familiar as its members milled around a bank of elevators in the bustling basement of a Senate office building: rejection.

They had often been told no over the past months - when the government moved to fire them with Donald Trump's blessing, when judges rejected challenges to that decision and when the lawmakers who they have taken to tracking down on Capitol Hill once a week when Congress is in session would turn a deaf ear to their pleas.

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