So let me just say two things. First, these firings are illegal. They were illegal before the shutdown, and they are illegal after the shutdown. The shutdown gives Donald Trump no more power to lay people off en masse like this than he had before. he had no power to do this. But the second is, please observe the cruelty of what they're doing. You know, I was a special ed teacher long before I ever got into this job. (04:10–04:18)
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Asserts that the shutdown does not grant Trump additional power for mass layoffs.
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