LANDOVER, Md. (DC News Now)-- The Federal Government is Maryland’s largest employer, with about 70,000 federal workers in Prince George’s County alone. Families are being hit hard, including a Bowie woman who worked 18 years for the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

Adrienne Burch told DC News Now that this is devastating for her family.

“I am trying to be positive, but it is a struggle between being angry and sad, and I feel robbed because my career was taken from me,” Burch said.

After spending much of her adult life working in the Federal Government, Burch lost her job. Wednesday afternoon, she was watering her flowers at home in Bowie.

“I feel like I was criminalized and demonized, and we were just going to work. And to have that ripped away from us again not because of

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