New reporting from the Fredericksburg Free Press details Winsome Earle-Sears backing Donald Trump’s efforts that have put nearly 145,000 Virginians at risk of losing their jobs, saying Virginians worried about layoffs will be “all right.” This comes after Sears defended — and doubled down on — her support for Trump’s threats to Virginia’s workforce and economy.

Fredericksburg Free Press: Earle-Sears: Virginians will be ‘all right’ despite federal workforce purge

• [Sears] offered her thoughts on the purge of federal workers currently taking place under the leadership of President Donald Trump.
• “I am glad that President Trump is getting to the bottom of all of this,” [...]
• In a brief interview with the Free Press after her speech, Earle-Sears made it clear that she supports the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the advisory agency headed by billionaire Elon Musk under the president’s direction.  
• More than 144,000 federal workers live in Virginia, and the House of Delegates recently formed a bipartisan committee, that includes Del. Joshua Cole (D-Fredericksburg), to study the effects of federal budget cuts on the Virginia economy. The bulk of the federal workforce in the state lives in Northern Virginia, the region that accounts for approximately 40% of the state’s revenue.
• Fired federal workers, she said, should apply for private sector jobs in the Commonwealth.

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