[ [link removed] ]RSVP for "Save Our Services! Let Us Work!" mass call to learn how to fight
back!

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday, the Trump administration fired half of the staff at the
Department of Education.^1 The workers received an email in the afternoon
telling them to work from home the following day, and hours later news
broke that half of them would be losing their jobs.

These cruel firings gut the agency's ability to provide the essential
funding that public schools across the country desperately rely on to
support their students. It will result in class sizes ballooning, cuts of
critical job training programs, higher education becoming an even bigger
financial stretch for most, special education ripped away for students
with disabilities, and civil rights protections eroded. 

This is just the latest round of firings led by billionaire Elon Musk to
erode our public services to enrich himself. Since President Donald Trump
took office, tens of thousands of federal workers have lost their jobs,
and not just in Washington, D.C., but across the country.^2 And when these
workers get pushed out, we all lose. From compromised food safety
inspections to increased flight safety concerns to delayed veterans'
benefits to disrupted Social Security services and so much more, American
families and our local communities are paying the price for DOGE's greedy
cuts against our workers and public services.

[ [link removed] ]Will you join MoveOn members and some of the nation's largest unions
and progressive organizations to hear how we can save the services we
depend on and fight back against these mass layoffs? RSVP to join us
tomorrow, Thursday, March 13, at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT.

The mass call to "Save Our Services! Let Us Work!" is led by federal
workers fighting to continue their critical public work for all of us. And
we'll be joined by speakers like Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto
Workers; Robert Reich, labor secretary; Liz Schuler, president of the
AFL-CIO; Maurice Mitchell, National Director of Working Families
Organization, and members of Congress on the front lines fighting against
Trump and Musk's funding crisis.

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Here's what you can expect on the call:

* Hear from federal workers on the front lines fighting back against
illegal DOGE cuts
* Get details on our new national campaign of actions and town halls to
stop federal worker firings and cuts to public services—including how
YOU can get involved
* Hear from top elected officials and union leaders about the urgent
stakes of this battle

Right now, Republicans in Congress are attempting to ram through the next
round of Trump's tax cuts for the richest in our country at the expense of
the rest of us.^3 And one key tactic to accomplish this goal? Firing
federal workers and gutting the programs and research that nearly all of
us depend on daily.

Since Donald Trump has taken office, he has not done a single thing to
make lives better for our families and communities. It's essential that we
come together to learn and strategize how to stop this billionaire-backed
takeover of our government.

[ [link removed] ]Please join tomorrow's mass call to "Save Our Services! Let Us
Work!"—and forward this invitation to a few friends so they can come too.

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelsey, Alexis, Nakia, Julia, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "U.S. Education Department says it is cutting nearly half of all
staff," NPR, March 12, 2025
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2. "In Missouri, federal workers are being laid off, others are scared
they are next," PBS News, March 11, 2025
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3. "House Republican Budget's $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut Doubles Down on Costly
Failures of 2017 Tax Law," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
February 28, 2025
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