“Just the disregard for the impact that this has, on not only the employee but his whole family, is astounding,” says Lara Macans, his wife.

This is how it is for every non-governmental worker in the US. I’m not saying it’s acceptable. I’m saying the entire system is built around callous disregard and cruelty.

That would be because federal workers have been systematically betrayed and isolated by Trump’s administration.

Are federal workers really just waking up to this now?