MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle will host a prime-time special with a crowd of federal workers whose jobs have been cut by Doge.
"Trump's 100 Days: A Town Hall with Forced Exiting Federal Workers" will air on Thursday, May 1 at 9 p.m.
Ruhle tells Ruhle tells Hollywood Reporter In the interview. “We think Doge and the huge impact on federal workers will be a great way for us to pause and show people what is going on.”
Ruhr said the City Hall audience will invite a range of former federal workers, including health and public services, internal tax services, veterans affairs and other agencies.
"I see the audience as part of this conversation, not just standing up there and asking questions in the way you often see traditional town halls," Ruhle said. "I see everyone in that room is also a big guest, an important voice because it has nothing to do with the party. It has nothing to do with this administration. It has nothing to do with the United States because a lot of the things the president is trying to do now are reshaping the way we work, the way we work, the way our country sees our country, the way other countries."
Meanwhile, Soboroff will publish stories about how the cuts will affect different parts of the country.
Next week he will be heading to West Virginia to show what these jobs are and where they are,” Ruhr said. “Think West Virginia. The country is overwhelmed in its economy. As far as education is concerned, it is one of the lowest countries in health care, and now we will see a lot of layoffs.
"Using a state like Alabama, a crimson state, I don't think people will realize that Alabama's biggest employer is the University of Alabama, which is obviously related to their hospital system," Ruhr added. "That's why you have Republican Senator Katie Britt in Alabama urging the president not to do these massive cuts because when you do, if we cut medical research, you'll affect millions, millions of potential lives."
For Ruhle, Ruhle often covers business and economics because she is a financial journalist’s background, and the cuts are part of a comprehensive tariff announced earlier this month as part of an effort to reshape the economy. Although she points out that many Americans do want to change the status quo.
This is a lot of confusion. But if you want to get out of the status quo, it will have some bold emotions and most people will say they have an appetite to boost the status quo, right? "But there is a difference between shaking the status quo, optimizing the government, optimizing our work and spending." There is a big gap between this and where we are now.
"When people think of federal workers, they just think DC is swollen, you know, there's a lot of interest in the idea of Doge," Ruhr said. You can talk to people at any income level, any population, any income level of any political affiliation, and people will say the government is too big, the government is too big, and his government doesn't work for me.