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1 week ago | wamu.org | Chris Remington |Margaret Barthel |Esther Ciammachilli

Among the thousands of federal workers who’ve either lost their jobs or taken buyouts in recent months, veterans have taken a disproportionate brunt of the force. Approximately is made up of veterans or their spouses — and some local vets say they’re already feeling the effects of federal cuts. “With my generation of veterans, I feel like we’ve gotten the s*** kicked out of us for 20 years,” said Alison Jaslow, who leads Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

1 week ago | wamu.org | Natalie Yuravlivker |Jackson Sinnenberg

It has been one month since Prince George’s County resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to a mega prison in El Salvador due to an administrative error by the Trump administration. The 29-year-old Salvadoran national came to the U.S. without legal status but his attorneys successfully argued in 2019 for him to receive court-ordered deportation protection due to his fear of retaliatory gang violence if he returned to his home country.

1 week ago | wamu.org | Margaret Barthel

Public meetings in Northern Virginia often start the same way these days: with dire-sounding presentations showing just how entangled the region is with the federal government — and therefore how vulnerable it is to the Trump administration’s ongoing cuts. The Virginia House Emergency Committee on the Impacts of Federal Workforce and Funding Reductions got its chance to take a look at the latest numbers at a meeting in Alexandria on Tuesday.

2 weeks ago | wamu.org | Megan Pauly

Some Northern Virginia child care providers that rely on families paying full tuition to offset the cost of subsidized slots are concerned they may have to close if a significant number of unemployed federal workers pull their children out of child care. That was one message Fairfax County Supervisor Jeffrey McKay had for state lawmakers Tuesday — during a House of Delegates hearing about the impacts of federal workforce and funding reductions.

2 weeks ago | wamu.org | Renuka Rayasam |Sam Whitehead

Protesters from 25 states and D.C. headed to the Capitol this week to protest planned cuts to Medicaid by Congress. Dorian Warren is is the co-president of the community organizing group Community Change, which led the protest on Tuesday. He emphasized the significance of Medicaid to the millions of beneficiaries nationwide.