DOGE Ended on July 4, but the Workers Whose Lives Musk Upended Are Still Reeling

When Lucy found out she was pregnant in the summer of 2025, she might have been delighted.

Instead, the news added to the uncertainty she’d been facing since that February, when she was among the first crop of federal workers fired by the Trump administration.

Her old bosses at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) […] ...