When President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill Tuesday night, he’ll see some workers in the audience who just lost their jobs because of him.

Several Democratic lawmakers have said they plan to bring fired federal employees as their guests to the Capitol for Trump’s address. The move is meant to highlight the sloppiness and cruelty of the administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce led by Elon Musk, the head of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

The attendees will represent laid-off workers from a slew of federal agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Rep. Brad Schneider, an Illinois Democrat, said his guest would be Adam Mulvey, an Army veteran who lost his job as an emergency management specialist at Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago. According to Schneider’s office, Mulvey was among the up to 200,000 federal probationary employees fired in February before attaining stronger job protections.

“It is disgraceful that Elon Musk and a group of unelected, unvetted DOGE Bros are treating veterans like Adam with arrogant disrespect and utter disregard,” Schneider said in a statement.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said she would be bringing Doug Kowalewski, a geomorphologist from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who lost his job at the National Science Foundation. The research agency is facing painful staff and funding reductions under the Trump administration.

“Trump and Musk are gutting our research and innovation pipeline and our local economy in Massachusetts,” Warren said in a statement. “That isn’t efficient — it’s cruel, short-sighted, and it’s costing American jobs and devastating millions of families.”

Lawmakers often use their State of the Union invitations to make a statement about the sitting president’s policies, so it’s no surprise Democrats are taking the opportunity to put faces on Trump’s cuts to government services.

Unions have said that most of the administration’s layoffs so far are illegal since they ignored due process standards or encroached on Congress’ control of federal funding. Many of the firings are being challenged in court and through government labor boards.

A federal judge in California said late last week that White House memos ordering the layoffs of probationary employees were illegal and should be rescinded.

Meanwhile, the administration has pressured thousands more workers to leave the government through a deferred resignation offer known as “Fork in the Road.” The Office of Personnel Management says workers who accept it would receive pay through September while doing little or no work, though the proposal appears illegal since Congress hasn’t appropriated money beyond March 14 yet.

As HuffPost reported, Trump’s bureaucratic shakeup has caused a lot of chaos and unnecessary waste, with some fired workers having to be rehired and agencies scrambling to understand the White House’s directives.

Rep. April McClain Delaney hopes to underscore how counterproductive these cuts could be. The Maryland Democrat said she plans to attend the State of the Union with Matthew Fessler, who lost his job as a health care specialist at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

“His chief job was finding waste, fraud, and abuse within a federal agency—but [he] was fired by DOGE in pursuit of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse,” McClain Delaney’s office said in a statement.

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