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'We're under attack by billionaires': Fired federal workers speak out on terminations
ABC News | Disney ^ | February 15, 2025 | ByArthur Jones II

Posted on 02/16/2025 6:32:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Hanna Hickman, a now-terminated worker for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told ABC News the last four days have been a roller coaster.

"It's scary," said Hickman, who was fired last Tuesday. "I had a real moment -- I was at CVS the other day and ... it kind of came on me all at once that I might not have health insurance in a few weeks, and that really hits you. I think it underscores the fact that we're just regular, middle-class people, just like the people we're trying to serve."

Hickman was senior litigation counsel for the Division of Enforcement at the CFPB in Washington, D.C. She is one of thousands of mostly new employees known as probationary workers laid off this week across the federal government. Those recent hires had joined the federal workforce within the last one to two years, depending on the agency, and have fewer protections.

Hickman was a probationary hire who had been at the CFPB just under two years until Tuesday around 9 p.m., when she saw a termination notice pop up on her phone.

"It was shocking, frankly -- not just to us but to our direct managers, who had not been told this would happen and received notice of the terminations at the same time we did because they were CC'd," Hickman told ABC News.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcsedition; arthurjones; arthurjonesii; cfpb; doge; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; hannahickman; probationaryworkers; wellbye
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1 posted on 02/16/2025 6:32:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
it kind of came on me all at once that I might not have health insurance in a few weeks

You can get Obamacare!
2 posted on 02/16/2025 6:34:42 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s right. So what?


3 posted on 02/16/2025 6:34:44 AM PST by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Class warfare.

Treasury looters say what?


4 posted on 02/16/2025 6:35:31 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“’We’re under attack by billionaires’: Fired federal workers speak out on terminations”

Should have TAKEN THE DEAL for 8 months of full pay, for doing nothing, or even working for a new employer.

Oh, most didn’t, they listened to their union. Hopefully they do learn a lesson about labor unions, which is that they are ALWAYS EVIL.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 6:38:19 AM PST by BobL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By sending trillions less to DC, there will be more billionaires and millionaires in the rest of the country. Can’t have that.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 6:38:31 AM PST by JewishRighter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>Hickman was senior litigation counsel

Yes, just like one of us LOL


7 posted on 02/16/2025 6:39:03 AM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people have no clue.

What happens to my health insurance?

Where will my next paycheck come from?

Yeah, welcome to the real world, Karen.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 6:39:59 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But enough about Barak.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 6:40:07 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She was hired on a probationary basis less than 2 years ago and she’s complaining about possibly not having health insurance? Entitled much?


10 posted on 02/16/2025 6:41:13 AM PST by montag813
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can we stop calling them “workers”…..they don’t really work much


11 posted on 02/16/2025 6:45:51 AM PST by wny
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To: Dr. Sivana

Cobra too.


12 posted on 02/16/2025 6:47:43 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Squeal away. We don’t expect you to support the streamlining of the government teat.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 6:47:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

[[. “I had a real moment — I was at CVS the other day and ... it kind of came on me all at once that I might not have health insurance in a few weeks, and that really hits you]]

Oh goodness.. you Mena you might have to go out and buy Obama are coverage like everyone else? Gosh, how scary! If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor (unless they say you cant)


14 posted on 02/16/2025 6:48:14 AM PST by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’re under attack by The People.


15 posted on 02/16/2025 6:49:06 AM PST by Big E
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To: Dr. Sivana

Hopefully, she can go on COBRA. That’s tons better than the exchanges.


16 posted on 02/16/2025 6:49:28 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s see how the government works:
1. Collect tax money
2. Hire more government employees
3. Collect more tax money
4. Spend it all
5. Go back to step 2.


17 posted on 02/16/2025 6:50:52 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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“Hickman was senior litigation counsel for the Division of Enforcement at the CFPB in Washington, D.C.”

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Probably lives in a multi-million dollar home in a gated community with a few million in the bank and a vacation home on the ocean.

She’ll be just fine.


18 posted on 02/16/2025 6:55:52 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘We’re under attack by billionaires’:

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Quite the contrary, you’re under attack by the average American taxpayer.


19 posted on 02/16/2025 6:58:05 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: jacknhoo

“There’s always barber college”

- James Dalton


20 posted on 02/16/2025 6:58:27 AM PST by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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