Lisa Blunt Rochester: “Firings that I might note the court later found were…”

“I don't think anybody can say that combination of words and have it be explicable. It is inexplicable. And you continue to traumatize them this fall by issuing a memo directing agencies to prepare for mass firings. Firings that I might note the court later found were illegal. So did the workers deserve because they feel traumatized? They were here. I saw them. They were lining up in these hallways talking to me, many of them in tears.” (02:42–02:47)

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