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Cameron'}, {'start': '25.039', 'end': '30.080', 'text': 'Hillicker worked for USAD. He was doing'}, {'start': '27.920', 'end': '32.640', 'text': 'vital work when he got the news his job'}, {'start': '30.080', 'end': '34.800', 'text': 'and his agency were gone. Right up until'}, {'start': '32.640', 'end': '36.239', 'text': 'I was uh put on administrative leave, I'}, {'start': '34.800', 'end': '38.719', 'text': 'was actually helping to evacuate uh the'}, {'start': '36.239', 'end': '40.160', 'text': 'Democratic Republic of Congo um and all'}, {'start': '38.719', 'end': '42.000', 'text': 'of our mission director and deputy'}, {'start': '40.160', 'end': '44.000', 'text': 'mission director. In the first days of'}, {'start': '42.000', 'end': '45.760', 'text': 'the shocking gutting of the federal'}, {'start': '44.000', 'end': '48.160', 'text': 'government, many of those forced out'}, {'start': '45.760', 'end': '50.160', 'text': 'feared speaking out, being identified.'}, {'start': '48.160', 'end': '52.960', 'text': 'Some were threatened and harassed online'}, {'start': '50.160', 'end': '55.760', 'text': 'and even in person. Tonight, they sat'}, {'start': '52.960', 'end': '58.000', 'text': 'heads held high on national TV and'}, {'start': '55.760', 'end': '60.320', 'text': 'described not only their stories, but'}, {'start': '58.000', 'end': '62.719', 'text': 'their fears for the people they had'}, {'start': '60.320', 'end': '65.439', 'text': 'served, the American public. They spoke'}, {'start': '62.719', 'end': '67.200', 'text': 'with host Stephanie Rule, NBC News'}, {'start': '65.439', 'end': '69.920', 'text': 'political and national correspondent'}, {'start': '67.200', 'end': '71.520', 'text': 'Jacob Sober and New Jersey Senator Cory'}, {'start': '69.920', 'end': '73.040', 'text': 'Booker. I start by introducing some of'}, {'start': '71.520', 'end': '74.799', 'text': 'the folks that are in the room tonight.'}, {'start': '73.040', 'end': '76.240', 'text': "Let's start with Britney Coleman."}, {'start': '74.799', 'end': '77.840', 'text': 'Britney was an attorney for the Office'}, {'start': '76.240', 'end': '79.920', 'text': 'of Civil Rights at the Education'}, {'start': '77.840', 'end': '81.200', 'text': "Department. Then there's Carrie Murray,"}, {'start': '79.920', 'end': '82.560', 'text': 'Murphy, excuse me, who worked at the'}, {'start': '81.200', 'end': '83.840', 'text': 'Commerce Department. They got the'}, {'start': '82.560', 'end': '85.920', 'text': 'courage to come and speak out tonight.'}, {'start': '83.840', 'end': '87.840', 'text': "I'm very, very grateful for them to be"}, {'start': '85.920', 'end': '90.560', 'text': 'here. Members of Congress who represent'}, {'start': '87.840', 'end': '92.720', 'text': 'DC area federal workers used the 100 day'}, {'start': '90.560', 'end': '95.600', 'text': 'mark to continue to call out the mass'}, {'start': '92.720', 'end': '97.680', 'text': "firings as illegal. It's hit my district"}, {'start': '95.600', 'end': '99.360', 'text': "especially hard. I've got part of Prince"}, {'start': '97.680', 'end': '101.520', 'text': "George's County right across the line."}, {'start': '99.360', 'end': '103.840', 'text': 'We have tens of thousands of government'}, {'start': '101.520', 'end': '106.560', 'text': "employees out there who've been forced"}, {'start': '103.840', 'end': '108.640', 'text': 'out of work. Uh who are, you know,'}, {'start': '106.560', 'end': '110.880', 'text': 'dayto-day on whether they can have a job'}, {'start': '108.640', 'end': '112.320', 'text': 'or not. Uh they have to watch the courts'}, {'start': '110.880', 'end': '114.399', 'text': "to see if there's an injunction that"}, {'start': '112.320', 'end': '116.560', 'text': 'might protect them from being laid off.'}, {'start': '114.399', 'end': '118.880', 'text': "It's been horrible. The federal firings"}, {'start': '116.560', 'end': '121.920', 'text': 'continue to be the subject of a number'}, {'start': '118.880', 'end': '124.719', 'text': 'of ongoing lawsuits. Jackie Bansson,'}, {'start': '121.920', 'end': '124.719', 'text': 'News4.'}]