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Across the U.S. government, the number of federal workers fired under President Donald Trump and his DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of those workers have turned to a website called We the Builders. It was created by federal workers associated with the U.S. Digital Service as a resource for employees who have lost their job, are afraid of losing their job, or want to file a whistle-blower complaint. The Radio Hour’s Adam Howard spoke with two of the site’s creators: Kate Green, who recently left the federal government for a job in the private sector, and a software engineer who identifies himself as Milo—using a pseudonym, since he is still employed in the government. “Both the beauty and the tragedy is that the work the government does is largely invisible,” Milo said. “You don’t always know that it is U.S.D.A. inspectors who are working in the slaughterhouses, who are making sure that work is being done in a safe and sanitary fashion . . . But they give a damn about making sure that food is safe. If that goes away, that’s not immediately visible to people. And they don’t necessarily know that these people have lost their jobs or that food is going to be less safe until people get hurt or worse. And so, we want to make sure that people start to understand what the cuts in these programs actually mean.”

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