Democratic Governors Hire Trump-Layoff Workers

As U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to reduce the size of the federal workforce through rapid-fire mass layoffs and buyouts, some Democratic governors are courting the newly unemployed to come to work for state governments instead.

On Monday, New York filled digital billboards in Washington’s Union Station encouraging former federal government employees to consider some of the state’s 7,000 public-sector job openings. It featured a cartoon of a pointing Statue of Liberty alongside the slogan: “New York Wants You.”

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