{"id":16485,"date":"2025-03-31T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-doge-targeted-v-a-an-iraq-veteran-faced-uncertainty-and-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:54:45","slug":"after-doge-targeted-v-a-an-iraq-veteran-faced-uncertainty-and-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-doge-targeted-v-a-an-iraq-veteran-faced-uncertainty-and-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"After DOGE Targeted V.A., an Iraq Veteran Faced Uncertainty and Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It had been six days since Joy Marver was locked out of her office at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, five days since she checked herself into a hospital for emergency psychiatric care, and two days since she sent a letter to her supervisors: \u201cPlease, I\u2019m so confused. Can you help me understand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, she followed her wife into the storage room of their house outside Minneapolis, searching for answers no one would give her. A half-dozen bins held the remnants of 22 years spent in service to the U.S. government \u2014 first as a sergeant first class in Iraq, then as a disabled veteran and finally as a V.A. support specialist in logistics. She had devoted her career to a system that had always made sense to her, but now nobody seemed to know whether she had officially been laid off, or for how long, or why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAre you sure you never got an email?\u201d asked her wife, Miki Jo Carlson, 49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHow would I know?\u201d<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>asked Marver, 45. \u201cThey deleted my account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMaybe it\u2019s because you were still probationary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy boss said I was exempt,\u201d Marver said. \u201cI was supposed to be essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the last few months, more than 30,000 people across the country were fired by President Trump\u2019s new initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency, a historic reduction of the federal work force that has been all the more disruptive because of its chaotic execution. Entire agency divisions have been cut without explanation or mistakenly fired and then rehired, resulting in several lawsuits and mass confusion among civil workers. After a court ruled last week that many of the firings were illegal, the government began reinstating workers, even as the Trump administration appealed the decision and promised more layoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The V.A. alone said it planned to cut about 80,000 more jobs this year \u2014 including tens of thousands of veterans \u2014 and for Marver the shock of losing her job was eclipsed by the disorientation of being repeatedly dismissed and belittled by the government she served. She had watched on TV as Trump\u2019s billionaire adviser Elon Musk took the stage at a political conference wielding a chain saw to the beat of rock music, slicing apart the air with what he called the \u201cchain saw for bureaucracy.\u201d She had listened to Trump\u2019s aides and allies deride federal employees for being \u201clazy,\u201d \u201cparasitic,\u201d \u201cunaccountable\u201d and \u201cessentially wasting\u201d taxpayer money in their \u201cfake jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Marver\u2019s case, that job had meant helping to retrain soldiers for the civilian work force and coordinating veteran burials while earning a salary of $53,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHere\u2019s the note I got a little while after I was hired,\u201d Marver told Carlson, pulling a form letter from the government. \u201cYou represent the best of who we are as Americans,\u201d it read. \u201cYou could have chosen to do anything with your talents, but you chose public service.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cKind of boilerplate, but it\u2019s nice,\u201d Carlson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI would be OK right now with boring and predictable,\u201d Marver said, as she tucked the letter back into a file.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She dug through the bins, pulling out military awards for \u201cexceptional achievement\u201d and \u201ctactical proficiency,\u201d and pushing aside a large steel hunk of a rocket. It had exploded on her base in Iraq during an attack in 2020, leaving her with a concussion, damaged eyesight and a traumatic brain injury. She\u2019d come home flattened, depressed and ill-equipped to hold a corporate job, but working alongside other veterans at the V.A. had done more to restore her sense of purpose than any of the five medications she was prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She reached into another bin and pulled out an employee of the month certificate and then her last performance evaluation, from October. She read the reviews out loud to Carlson, looking for clues that might hint at a reason for her dismissal. \u201cJoy puts the mission first \u2014 team player, responsible, continually displays professionalism. She is a great employee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She scanned down to her performance rating and saw that her boss had not circled \u201csatisfactory,\u201d or \u201cfully successful,\u201d or even \u201cexcellent,\u201d but had instead chosen \u201coutstanding!\u201d \u2014 the best possible result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI did everything they wanted me to do,\u201d Marver said. She flipped over the sheet and read it again, searching for some hidden flaw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019re not going to find anything that makes it add up,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cThis was never about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Marver kept digging through the paperwork, already knowing what came next: a \u201cFork in the Road\u201d email from Musk offering mass buyouts, a sample letter of resignation provided to all federal employees, and another email demanding that Marver and her colleagues send a list of five things they had accomplished that week. Some of her co-workers had refused to answer in protest, but Marver believed in following orders. She wrote that the Minneapolis V.A. was requiring its remote employees to return to the office, and that she was responsible for preparing the building. She was reviewing floor plans, moving hundreds of chairs and assembling desks in the hallway. Then, on Feb. 14, the first wave of her co-workers had been fired, and she was in charge of collecting their badges. Her managers had reassured her that her job was safe. She was vital to the mission, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She kept digging in the box until she found a few family photographs that she had taken off her desk that last morning, after she couldn\u2019t log into her computer. A confused supervisor had suggested she grab her personal items before leaving the building, just in case. Marver had gone back to her truck and texted Carlson, already plagued by the question that had consumed her ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat just happened?\u201d Marver asked. \u201cIt\u2019s like being erased out of thin air.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">She kept American flags<\/strong> all over the house \u2014 raised above the front porch, framed on her bedroom wall, draped over the gun safe and tattooed on her right bicep underneath the word \u201cLoyalty.\u201d She had just turned 21 when she enlisted in the National Guard a few months after Sept. 11, 2001, and she had served under Republicans and Democrats for two decades without paying much attention to politics. Her job was to follow orders wherever they led \u2014 driving a Humvee that exploded when it hit a roadside bomb in Iraq, scrambling underneath her bed during rocket attacks, defending herself and others with a riot shield in downtown Minneapolis during the violent protests in the aftermath of George Floyd\u2019s murder. Her military career spanned three active-duty tours and more than 800 days in war zones, and each year she was graded by her superiors based on a list of Army tenets she understood to be reciprocal: Loyalty. Duty. Respect. Honor. Integrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her final tour had been the most damaging, when she was stationed at Camp Taji outside Baghdad in March 2020 during a series of incoming rocket attacks that killed several soldiers. One day, she heard more than 30 explosions on the base and started running through clouds of black smoke and into a bunker just as a rocket landed nearby. She felt the shock waves rip through her, clouding her vision and rattling her rib cage. She checked her arms, her shoulders, her legs. Her body remained intact. She stumbled into the middle of the bunker and told her soldiers she was fine, but then she started vomiting, blacking out and slurring her words. A few hours later, she was diagnosed with a concussion and a traumatic brain injury, and doctors had been taking measure of her wounds ever since. She was rated 10 percent disabled for eyesight, 10 percent for hearing loss, 20 percent for back pain, 30 percent for persistent migraines and 70 percent for depression, PTSD, insomnia, anxiety and memory loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think I\u2019m going to have another panic attack,\u201d she said one day, about a week after her firing from the V.A. It was almost 2 p.m., and she was still in her pajamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHave you taken your medicine yet?\u201d Carlson asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been trying not to,\u201d Marver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTake it,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cKick up the dose. Rockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was the word they used as shorthand for all the accommodations Marver\u2019s new life required after she returned from Iraq. Her chronic fatigue and recurring nightmares? Rockets. Her sudden avoidance of crowds? Rockets. They had moved out of a noisy apartment building in downtown Minneapolis and into a suburb south of the city. They bought a house with soundproof walls, a canoe and a view of a lake, but Marver still jolted awake and paced the bedroom at night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlson felt as if she were married to a new person, so she had started keeping a handwritten list of all the ways in which Marver was diminished by her last tour. \u201cMemory before Iraq: Great, meticulous.\u201d After: \u201cForgets appointments, leaves lights on, misses entire strips when mowing the grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPersonality before Iraq: Does funny dances and makes up silly songs \u2014 great social skills.\u201d After: \u201cSense of humor gone and very introverted. Avoids big crowds or new places. She lost her spark. The difference is night and day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRelationship before Iraq: Happy\/normal.\u201d After: \u201cNo intimacy. I am now more of a caretaker than a wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Only in the last week had Carlson begun to wonder whether all that caretaking was sustainable on her own. She worked six days a week as a bartender, while Marver found both confidence and community in her job at the V.A. Marver worked alongside other veterans who understood her wounds and forgave her occasional memory lapses. Now she was home alone for much of the day. She mostly stayed in bed, ate microwaved meals and watched the news on TV to see what Trump and Musk were planning next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Marver wasn\u2019t opposed to thoughtful government cuts. During her time in the military, she had complained about the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on new weapons and aircraft that never panned out. She had managed her own tight supply budget of $21 million on her base in Iraq and won praise in her annual reviews for fiscal responsibility and loss prevention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are smart ways to go about this,\u201d she told Carlson. \u201cThere\u2019s plenty to cut. They don\u2019t have to go in with a firing squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t helping you,\u201d Carlson said. She grabbed the remote and turned off the TV. \u201cYou need to eat. Go outside. Get some air. Go for a walk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI can\u2019t keep piecing myself back together,\u201d Marver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRockets,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cWe need to ask for some help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">The next afternoon,<\/strong> they drove out of the suburbs and back into Minneapolis to see Marver\u2019s psychiatrist at the V.A. The hospital was across the street from the administrative building where Marver used to work, and she pulled up to her old entry gate and tried to look inside. \u201cIt\u2019s a black box,\u201d she said. She was still waiting for an email from human resources with an official reason for her firing. She had tried to ask her co-workers, but some said they were afraid to talk to her over the phone. They worried that their calls were being monitored or that they could be disciplined for sharing information or offering their support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m getting the same panicky feeling I had that morning,\u201d Marver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRelax,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cBreathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t control any of my thoughts,\u201d Marver said. She pulled back onto the road, but now her mind was stuck inside the confusion of that last morning at work, when she was locked out of her computer as her colleagues began arriving for work. Her manager said that there had been a mistake, and that he would sort it out. She waited at her desk until another manager came back and said he was sorry, but<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>her name no longer existed in the system. He asked for her badge and walked her outside. She sat in the cab of her truck in the parking lot, staring at the wheel. She didn\u2019t want to go home. She was tired of disappointing Carlson with bad news \u2014 tired of being the problem. She started the engine and drove out of the parking lot. She stopped at a traffic light that led onto a bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She knew a half-dozen veterans who had died by suicide, including two of her closest friends in Iraq, and she sat at the red light and considered it for the first time. If she proceeded onto the bridge, if she swung the wheel to the right, if she pressed down on the accelerator and drove over the guardrail. The light turned green. Her hands were shaking. She didn\u2019t move. Someone honked from behind, and for a moment it jarred her back. She drove straight over the bridge, parked at the V.A. hospital and followed signs to the psychiatry department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now she was arriving there again, for a follow-up appointment. She held Carlson\u2019s hand in the waiting room until a psychiatrist came to greet them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou might have saved my life that day,\u201d Marver told her psychiatrist. \u201cI felt this voice telling me: \u2018Do it. Just get it over with.\u2019 It came on so fast. It scared the shit out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m so glad you had the courage to get help,\u201d she told Marver. \u201cHow are you doing now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m stable, but it\u2019s dark,\u201d Marver said. \u201cI can\u2019t turn off the news. Nothing that\u2019s happening makes sense. They keep getting rid of things without even knowing what they\u2019re cutting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She said she was worried about layoffs affecting the doctors she relied on at the V.A.: the specialist who treated her T.B.I., the neurologist who managed her migraines, the therapist with whom she relived the rocket attacks, and the psychiatrist who rushed out of a meeting to see Marver as soon as she crossed the bridge, consoling and hugging her until she finally stopped shaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The V.A. had been scrambling to hire psychiatrists for years to make up for what it called a \u201csevere staffing shortage\u201d as veteran suicide rates rose to epidemic levels, but now a few new ones had been fired by DOGE because they were still probationary employees. Each V.A. psychiatrist was already responsible for 500 patients, and lately those patients had begun reporting increased rates of anxiety and stress because many of them were also employed by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNobody wants to serve this country more than veterans,\u201d Marver said. \u201cIt\u2019s personal for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s why I love working here,\u201d her doctor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI need a purpose,\u201d Marver said. \u201cI still want some way to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThen keep looking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">She changed back into her pajamas.<\/strong> She took medication for a migraine. She went back to bed and slept through the afternoon, until Carlson came home from work. \u201cRockets,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cYou can\u2019t stay like this forever. Get up. Get mad. Get back in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A former colleague had invited Marver to speak at a town hall in southern Minnesota alongside a few other fired federal workers, and at the last minute, Marver agreed to go. She waited in line for her five-minute slot and then stared out at the crowd of about 100 people, trying to find the right words. \u201cSorry,\u201d she said into the microphone. \u201cThis is hard for me.\u201d She hadn\u2019t spoken in public since she left the military. She scanned the audience for Carlson, who raised her fist in support. \u201cOK,\u201d Marver said. \u201cLet\u2019s try this.\u201d She told the story of her firing, the ensuing confusion and her crisis at the hospital. \u201cIs this how we treat our veterans?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The audience clapped as Marver handed the microphone to the next speaker, but on the ride home she could still feel the adrenaline and anger rising into her chest. She stopped on the front porch and reached up for the flag. She smoothed out the fabric and rehung it upside down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019re sure about that?\u201d Carlson asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cUntil this country starts making sense again,\u201d Marver said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-14\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She kept watching the news and checking her email for a reasonable explanation, but every update only left her more confused. More than a week after she was fired, Marver received a \u201cTermination Letter\u201d from human resources: \u201cYour performance has not met the burden to demonstrate further employment,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She received another message a week later: \u201cThe V.A. is rescinding the termination,\u201d it read. \u201cYou will be on administrative leave. You are not to return to duty at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And then, 24 days after she was fired, she got another email with a subject line marked urgent: \u201cReturn to Duty Instructions.\u201d The message told her to report back to work Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d Marver said. She searched for more information online and saw that a federal judge had ordered the government to rehire some probationary employees, ruling that their mass firing was based on \u201csham\u201d reasoning. The Trump administration had agreed to comply with the order even as it filed an appeal and asked for emergency relief from the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWho knows what they\u2019ll tell me tomorrow,\u201d Marver said, when she showed the email to Carlson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy even go back there again?\u201d Carlson asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-15\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBecause I can keep helping veterans,\u201d Marver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She lay awake for most of the night and then got into her car Monday morning. She drove back over the bridge and parked in front of her building. One of her supervisors met her outside and said she would need to spend most of the day \u201creorienting.\u201d The government had to give her back pay for the last 24 days, a new ID badge, new passwords and a new computer monitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAll in the name of government efficiency,\u201d Marver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDoes it feel like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu?\u201d one of her co-workers asked, as he handed her a new ID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Marver looked at her picture and thought for a moment about the roller coaster of the last month. She had always prided herself on following orders \u2014 on adhering to the rules of a system. But now the system was being dismantled, and the orders no longer made sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cActually, no,\u201d she said. \u201cThis time feels different.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-16\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Erin Schaff<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || 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