When President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill Tuesday night, he’ll see some workers in the audience who just lost their jobs because of him. Several Democratic lawmakers have said they plan to bring fired federal employees as their guests to the Capitol for Trump’s address.

States are rushing to recruit employees who were cut from the federal workforce under the Trump administration. There is no tally of how many federal employees have been laid off or fired or have voluntarily handed in their resignations due to the Trump administration’s initiative to slash the size of the bureaucracy through Elon Musk’s

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is launching a major hiring push to recruit federal workers who've been laid off​ by the White House's Department of Government Efficiency.