Three weeks ago, Jessica Fair walked around the Valley Forge Historical Park as a park architect, planning to protect more than 250-year-old buildings on site.
On Tuesday evening he will sit in the Gallery of the American Chamber of Representatives along with dozens of other federal employees, when President Donald J. Trump gives a speech of both chambers of Congress in Quasi-Stanu Unia, just six weeks from taking office.
“I am the daughter of a teacher at a public school and Górnik from Western Pennsylvania,” said Fair Guest, representative of American Chrissy Houlahan and mother of Trójka from Chester. “In a million years I have never imagined that I joined my Congressmen in DC, but I try to go beyond the comfort zone to tell my story to try to humanize what is happening.”
Democrats, with a tiny ammunition to fight the president’s program and brisk cuts, which he made to the federal government, tried to demonstrate damage caused to dismissal of employees and their families and Americans, which could affect cuts on services.
On Tuesday evening, he will contain this strategy at the largest stage, when Democrats try to return the public against Trump and the Department of Government, or Doge.
Presidential speeches have long been the possibility of Congress the possibility of making political declarations – in favor of the government in power or against it.
Tuesday’s speech will add an intensity layer when people watch a speech given by a government leader, which simply released them.
“Awkward”, Jay “Smitty” Smith, who was released last month with The taxpayer of Advocate Service, an independent organization in IRS, predicted that Tuesday evening would feel watching Trump’s speech, but he will not be able to talk about what happened to him.
“My wife will confirm that sometimes I have a problem with keeping my mouth when I feel that I am right and the other person is wrong,” said 50 -year -old Smith from Havertown. “It’s human nature to want to say,” You have chosen. “
Smith retired from the Navy after 20 years and tried to find a job that he enjoyed until IRS’s position appeared about nine months ago. A disabled veteran who said he had bad back, bad knees and PTSD, Smith liked to cooperate with his colleagues to help people experiencing financial difficulties or who were incorrectly accused by the government.
He worked in three teams and did the work of several people just to get E -Mail with information that his employment “was not in the best interest of society.”
“Nobody was supposed to say negatively about me. Everyone loved me there. How am I not in the best interest of society? “Said Smith, who will take part in the speech as a guest of the US representative Mary Gay Scanlon.
Meanwhile, expect that several Republicans from Pennsylvania will bring voters who have used Trump’s executive orders or early political movements.
And Trump, who made wide changes in just a month at work, probably advertises savings that generated these cuts along with other rules, such as tariffs and limit safety measures.
In the possible announcement of what is to come in Trump’s speech, the White House announced on Monday that several large production projects will come to the USA, including Honda’s decision to produce her new generation civic hybrid model in Indian and Mexico and Apple’s announcement Historical investment worth $ 500 billion, which will create 20,000 new jobs in the USA.
Administration He also announced that border crossings are significantly inheritance.
“These cuts affect real people”
In addition to IRS, there will be employees of the Education Department and the Department of Agriculture.
Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) Brings Rory Badger, a veteran who served in Iraq and a USDA employee who was released by the Trump administration in February as part of mass dismissals.
Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D., Del.) Invited Laura Wallace, a released test analyst and research analyst at the American early childhood Development Office. Her husband is a disabled veteran and trial worker at the Veterans administrative hospital in Philadelphia, in which the couple worries that his employment may also be threatened.
“We’re very nervous, right? That he could also be solved, so he must look for another job. And so panic, like “OK, we have two young children, we have these bills, for example, who will have health insurance? What happens next? ” – said Wallace.
The 37 -year -old Wallace was released from her position in the administration of children and families in the same month in which the up-to-date system debuted for countries to report that they were using federal dollars to improve access to childcare. He hopes that the presence of released federal employees during Trump’s speech humanizes the influence of dog cuts.
“I have never met anyone who joined the federal government because they wanted to get rich, right? No, they join, take federal work because they are so passionate about the work they do – said Wallace. “So I hope that they will see that these cuts affect real people and real families, and then a spiral down, how this will affect the services in all aspects of everyone’s life in this country.”
How effective democrats are in growing opposition to Trump’s reduction is challenging to determine. In general, efforts for musk for cutting The size of the federal government was supported by 59% in the Reuters/Ipsos survey in February, including a third of the Democratic Party voters.
But the same study showed that 58% of respondents were worried about cuts affecting government programs, such as social insurance payments and financial assistance of the university.
Some democrats focus on program cuts to try to consider fears except for employees’ dismissals. Senator Andy Kim (D., Nj) brings an activist for disabled rights and long -term recipient Medicaid, Kevin Nuñez, author and podcaster from New Jersey.
“Trump and Musk have shown that they have no problem limiting the necessary funds that lend a hand our most sensitive success; Thanks to these cuts, the disabled community will lose access to critical programs and rescue lines, “she told Kim in the communiqué.
For the American representative of Dwight Evans, who represents Philadelphia, boycotting speech is his way to say.
“Congresmen Evans believes that Trump did not deserve the honor of his presence, due to the illegal or legally dubious actions, such as massive exemptions and refusal to fund the federal financing already intended by law,” said Ben Turner spokesman.
Who are the Republicans?
US representative Rob Bresnahan, a first -year student of Republicans from Pennsylvania, brings Don Williams, father of officer Eric Williams, who was murdered by a prisoner in USZ Cananan, an American plant with high safety in north -eastern Pennsylvania.
Bresnahan is one of the two Republicans who overturned home districts in Pennsylvania in November. The second, US representative Ryan Mackenzie, representing the Lehigh Valley, brings Michael Wargo.
Wargo and his wife, Sarah, are golden stars from Carbon, whose son took his life after a long fight with PTSD. The couple worked on increasing awareness of mental health and support needed for veterans in Carbon, which he has supreme The speed of suicide of veterans of any Pennsylvania.
US representative Dan Meuser, whose districts begin east of Harrisburg and stretch north to the border with New York, brings Brian Kilmeade, a co -creator Fox & Friends Morning television program on the Fox News cable channel, which often performed Trump as a guest.
