The end of April brought us to the end of the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. But with many court cases challenging the cuts to agencies and personnel we still lack a clear picture of what Federal jobs and resources North Carolina will lose.
If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will frantically try to clamber out. But if you put it in tepid water and turn up the heat slowly, the frog will gradually sink into a stupor, allowing itself to be boiled to death. This week, I feel like a frog in a Nazi pot. I’m yelling for others to wake up and try to escape, even though I can’t get out myself.
This story is based on interviews with a handful of Triangle residents recently fired, furloughed or placed on administrative leave from their jobs with the federal government, or a contractor receiving federal funding.
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