Press Release: UPDATE: Gov. Evers, DWD Highlight Success of Job Fairs Offered to Federal Workers Affected by Mass Trump Administration Firings
State of Wisconsin sent this bulletin at 05/21/2025 12:21 PM CDT![]() |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2025 |
Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov |
UPDATE: Gov. Evers, DWD Highlight Success of Job Fairs Offered to Federal Workers Affected by Mass Trump Administration Firings |
Evers Administration virtual job fairs draw nearly 300 participants across eight different high-demand career sector job fairs |
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD), today highlighted the most recent impacts from the Evers Administration’s virtual job fairs that were made available to federal workers affected by the Trump Administration’s reckless mass firings. The virtual job fairs focused on eight different high-demand sectors, from healthcare and informational technology to law enforcement and engineering, drawing nearly 300 participants.
In addition to the federal worker portal highlighted above, individuals interested in learning more about potential employment opportunities and getting connected with available employee assistance can also find more information at the links below:
The attempts to fire thousands of federal workers have also included gutting the United States Agency for International Development, firing nearly 84 percent of employees at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Community Planning and Development, more than half of the employees at the U.S. Department of Education, 15 percent at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and 10 percent of employees at the National Institutes of Health. The Trump Administration’s sweeping and reckless layoffs have hit the nation’s veterans particularly hard. All told, veterans comprise about a quarter of the federal workforce, not including active-duty personnel, and reports indicate an estimated 6,000 veterans have already been baselessly fired by the Trump Administration. Additionally, in March, reports indicated the Trump Administration plans to baselessly and illegally fire more than 70,000 workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the largest cabinet-level agency with a quarter of its employees themselves being veterans, and affecting services and resources available to those they serve. Most recently, the Trump Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have made several reckless, devastating cuts, including laying off and terminating approximately a quarter—about 20,000 HHS employees—whose responsibilities include but were not limited to vaccine researchers, grant administration, responding to lead exposure incidents, answering public information requests to ensure government accountability and transparency, and specialists who help provide care and assistance to senior and aging and older adults, among others. Gov. Evers has announced multiple lawsuits challenging the reckless firings and mass terminations that have left families who have bills to pay and families to feed in Wisconsin and across the country in the lurch. |
An online version of this release is available here. |
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