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Speaker 1: Ellen Meye was notified she was being fired after she

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Speaker 1: appeared on television to voice her concern for Americans going

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Speaker 1: hungry due to the federal shutdown and its impact on

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Speaker 1: federal food assistance payments. At a rally outside the Odeal

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Speaker 1: Federal Building, her coworkers voiced their support for her, as

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Speaker 1: did Senator at Marky.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump is declaring war on our federal workers, on

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Speaker 2: the communities which they serve, and this administration is treating

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Speaker 2: federal workers as extendable. What Trump has done is not

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Speaker 2: only callous and cruel and anti worker, it is illegal.

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Speaker 1: Maya is now on administrative leave from her job, but

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Speaker 1: says she'll continue to fight her dismissal and continue to

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Speaker 1: speak out in support of the food assistants recipients who

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Speaker 1: she worked to serve. Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio