She has stage four cancer. Her husband is a federal worker. Will she survive the Trump administration?

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Source: theguardian.com
She has stage four cancer. Her husband is a federal worker. Will she survive the Trump administration?

Michaela’s husband is away 14 hours a day amid Trump’s ban on remote work, the threat of layoffs is ever-present and their health premiums are set to multiply

Michaela felt a sharp pain shoot from her hip while she bent over to water some plants in early May 2025. Then she fell over and couldn’t get back up.

Her husband called an ambulance and she spent the night in a hospital, where, at 57, she found out she had a mass on her spine. It was metastatic breast cancer.

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