Federal workers and labor activists held a national day of action in dozens of cities across the U.S. on Wednesday, demanding an end to mass firings ordered by President Trump and DOGE. Here in New York, protesters rallied at Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. Chris Dols is president of Local 98 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.

Chris Dols: “The entire public sphere is under attack by a handful of billionaires who see an opportunity right now to smash and grab the entire civil service, take out the entire services that we provide in the process, and it’s going to take a long time to put it back together if we let them break it. So we have to stop them before they get away with it.”

Chris Dols will join us after headlines for more on federal workers’ pushback to Trump’s cuts.