Amid all the usual pressures of losing a job, 24-year-old former federal worker Luke Tobin has faced another challenge: relatives cheering his firing.
Tobin, who lost his job as a technician with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest, is one of several thousand federal workers whose role has been cut as part of Elon Musk and DOGE's slash-and-burn approach to reduce what they see as government waste.