Emily Erroa had eight months pregnant when she discovered that she was being fired from her human resources work in the energy department.
“He emphasized me to the point where I had to go to the hospital because I felt that I had caused too much stress to the baby,” he told NBC News. “They called me saying: ‘Oh, you’re fired. Oh, it doesn’t matter. You are not fired. You are not on the list. And then they return the call and said: ‘You are on the list’. These were long after working hours, and they were constant emails, daily things, so it has now affected everything. “
Erroa, a veteran and reservist of the 38 -year -old army, was based in Texas. Now, he had to move to Kansas City, Missouri, to be closer to the family.
“It’s not as if I could say: ‘Oh, well, well, I’ll go find another job.’ I am visibly pregnant.” But we really live, right? They would not hire me, and also, I would need to have free time. My baby must appear on April 17 “.
Thousands of federal workers have been fired from their government works in recent weeks amid the efforts of President Donald Trump, his multimillion -dollar advisor Elon Musk and the government’s efficiency department. But for erro and women like her, they are pregnant, bets are more challenging and complex.
NBC News spoke with half a dozen pregnant federal workers, both international and national, who recently lost their jobs and expressed concern about looking for work unexpectedly, staying insured while needing prenatal care and how stress would affect their babies.
A White House spokesman defended the recent federal dismissals.
“President Trump returned to Washington with a mandate of the American people to achieve an unprecedented change in our federal government uprooting uprooting, fraud and abuse,” said the Subsecretary of the Main Press of the White House, Harrison Fields, in a statement. “While this is not easy to make in a broken system rooted in bureaucracy and swelling, it is a necessary task for future generations.”
When Anna Conn, a 35 -year -old girl who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, was abruptly fired from the centers for disease control and prevention, while eight months of pregnancy, she said she sank her life in agitation. Her government health insurance expires before her expiration date, but so far, changing her husband’s plan has not been possible, she said. As amputated above the knee, it has additional health concerns linked to pregnancy, which implies costs related to a new prosthesis.
“It is possible that they need a document that indicates the exact date of coverage, that the federal government had not provided,” said Conn, 35, about her husband’s insurance change.
Conn was among those found in the blanket, the massive shots in which employees universally received a termination notice that indicated that they were fired for low performance. That is even though Conn says he obtained excellent performance criticism.
And the moment of his shot, coming while he is in the third quarter of pregnancy, has put it in a difficult situation to request unemployment help. Conn pointed out that you would be asked to request a minimum number of jobs every week to qualify for unemployment assistance.
“With a new baby,” he said. “That idea can go out the window.”
Gracie Lynn, 32, was fired from her work in the consumer financial protection office.
Lynn, who lives in Eugene, Oregon, and said he had been seeing a maternal fetal specialist about the concerns of a possible heart problem for the baby, was immediately worried that he would face thousands of dollars of additional invoices. She said doctors think that the baby will be fine, but the Federal Government took two weeks to give him the paperwork that allowed him to request the temporary continuation of coverage for medical care.
“Having six months pregnant, it was really stressful, because I knew that I knew we had these two quotes from the great doctors in the next few days. We had an appointment on Tuesday, and we had an echo of the fetal heart on Friday, like eight days after they fired me, and I immediately said: “I need to know that I will be in medical insurance”, “said Lynn.” ‘How, who do I ask? How do I know when this ends? “
Emily, an American agency for International Development based in Washington, DC, who spoke with NBC News about the condition that her last name was not published, said she spent years working nights and weekends during international conflicts, saving her free time paid by a planned maternity leave.
After banking hundreds of hours of free time, he planned to extend the government policy of three months of remunerated maternity leave to five months when he gave birth at the end of this year.
Then, at 11 weeks of pregnancy, Emily was told that his contract had been terminated and that he would be out of a job in just 15 days. The day he hoped to finish his work, his contract was extended for another six weeks. While part of his pto save will be paid, he said they will limit the amount and lose half of his saved time.
Natasha Weinstein, 38, said she was flying back home in the Washington area, DC, from an international vacation when she received a text message from her manager saying that she and her fellow workers from USAID had been blocked from the building.
Weinstein said he spent the next two insecure weeks if he had a job, before learning at 21 weeks of pregnancy that his contract would be terminated. Although his colleagues advised him, he returned to the office during this time to recover his personal belongings from his desk.
“I was like, no, they have hundreds of dollars with my personal items, photos, photos of Ecogram. I’m not going to leave those things there, ”he said. “I said, you know, they took our jobs, they took our country, but they are not taking shoes, because all my work shoes were there. So now the group chat is called ‘cannot take our shoes’.
Weinstein said the termination is a challenge for his family’s finances and that being fired by a mass email that did not even include his name was “insulting.”
“I am doing everything possible not to get super, super stressed for everything, because I have lost a pregnancy in the third quarter before. So I’m trying to calm and relax above all, but it’s scary in many ways, ”he said.
Another former USAID employee, who spoke with NBC News under the condition of anonymity, lost his job at 29 weeks of pregnancy. She lives abroad and therefore, will not qualify for any unemployment or family license benefits in the United States or her country of origin.
The employee, who was deployed by the agency in the Middle East before in his pregnancy, said that being fired stretches his finances and will prevent his husband from also taking unpaid free time.
“Looking for the canyon to be pregnant and give birth and then take a couple of months, ideally, to recover. The sooner I am going to ask Jobs to be August, ”he said.
“The sooner I am going to get a job is October, November, and that is like the best of cases,” he said. “I am seeing basically nine months, if not a year, without income.”
