Serving the entire country, everyone

Defector has a series of interviews with federal workers, including this one with Sabrina Valenti who was a budget analyst at NOAA. It’s abundantly clear reading these pieces how much the administration is attacking workers themselves as well as the work they do to make the world a living, thriving place for all of us. In Valenti’s own words: “The work that we do benefits the American people. And when I say the American people, I mean all of them, not just the ones who are wealthy, not just the ones who live in certain locations. Every single person who lives near body of water, whether it’s a river, a gulf, an ocean, they benefit from the work that NOAA does. For the dismantling to be proceeding apace, it’s destroying the hopes of thousands of people who have dreamed of public service. I have colleagues who were fired who wanted to work at NOAA since they were in elementary school. And the reason that we do our jobs is because we’re passionate about the subject. We’re passionate about the mission. And we’re passionate about serving the entire country, everyone.”