Senators Looney and Duff Applaud Efforts by Other States to Hire Fired Federal Workers

HARTFORD – Senate President Martin Looney and Majority Leader Bob Duff on Wednesday applauded governors in states like Hawaii, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia for their leadership in hiring federal workers recently fired by the Trump administration.

Governors in states across the country have moved quickly to recruit former federal employees as the Trump administration has fired tens of thousands of workers from the federal workforce, according to reporting by Stateline.

“It’s not every day that a chief executive foolishly guts his own workforce and leaves thousands of talented employees suddenly looking for new jobs. We applaud the good business sense of every governor who has seized the opportunity presented by this once-in-a-generation blunder to fill state vacancies with these qualified candidates,” Senators Looney and Duff said. “We hope our own Executive Branch will join all the forward-looking states benefiting from Donald Trump’s incompetence.”