• Two weeks in: The Trump administration dismissed 4,000 employees over the holiday weekend and is looking to lay off more. The workers most affected are those who provide services for vulnerable and low-income Americans: housing inspectors, hazardous waste inspectors, and those who work with students with special needs. Local nonprofits are feeling the squeeze, too, as federal employees who used to be donors to the United Way, for example, are now clients. And the Capital Area Food Bank, which relies in part on funding from the Department of Agriculture, has given out 5 million more meals this fiscal year than it expected. Food insecurity affects about one in three people in the D.C. area, according to the food bank’s 2025 report. Minus one point for (possibly illegal) layoffs and minus a

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