People watch the sunset from the Washington Monument ahead of the first supermoon of the year, known as the Harvest Moon, rising above the National Mall, in view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol during the sixth day of a shutdown of the federal government in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 6, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Reuters

Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran who was laid off during Friday’s federal government layoffs , couldn’t believe it when he heard the vice president say the Trump administration was being forced to choose between Americans and “federal bureaucrats.”

“I’m an Orlando veteran. I’m not a DC bureaucrat,” he told CNN, just days after the White House sent reduction in force — or RIF — notices to more than 3,500 federal workers. “Either they don’t know who they’re f

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