US EditionDisabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings
- Spencer Goidel, a 33-year-old autistic federal worker from Florida, was laid off from his IRS equal employment opportunity specialist position in 2025.
- Mass layoffs under President Donald Trump's Republican administration have affected disabled employees despite the federal government’s past role as a model employer.
- Goidel’s job involved resolving harassment claims to prevent lawsuits, but recent IRS EEO office cuts will reduce investigations and may increase litigation.
- Disabled workforce employment reached 38% last year, yet decades-old gaps persist, and officials like Trump ended inclusion programs, citing merit-based hiring alone.
- Advocates warn layoffs and policy rollbacks harm disabled workers' opportunities and government services, while skepticism grows about sustaining federal disability inclusion.
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East Bay TimesSanta Clara County Office of Education workers decry ‘DOGE-like’ layoffs impacting special ed, Head Start
Several hundred Santa Clara County Office of Education employees — including workers in special education, Head Start and the Migrant Education programs — will be laid off later this year, a move one local union is comparing to federal cuts being implemented by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Expiring state and federal grants, declining student enrollment and rising operational costs have created budgetary challenges, according …
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Albany Democrat HeraldDisabled workers face DOGE firings
WASHINGTON — Spencer Goidel, a 33-year-old federal worker in Boca Raton, Florida, with autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employment opportunity specialist at the IRS.
Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings
Spencer Goidel, a 33-year-old federal worker in Boca Raton, Florida, with autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employment opportunity specialist at the IRS.Because of his autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, Goidel had been able to secure his spot as one of more than 500,000 disabled workers in the federal government under Schedule A, which allows federal agencies to bypass the traditional hiring proc…
“Fork Off Coalition” Calls for Federal Workers Rehiring : Indybay
For the tenth consecutive week the “Fork Off Coalition” of united fired federal workers held their “Job Fair” by visiting Senators’ offices calling on representatives to do more to rein in DOGE’s destructive and illegal cuts to federal programs. This morning’s Fair began in the Hart Senate Office Building atrium next to a massive Alexander Calder stabile where the group representing several agencies discussed the importance of consistent and rep…
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