‘An American hero’: Meet the federal worker who is standing up to Elon Musk’s DOGE

Karen Ortiz is an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, one of the many federal agencies under attack by the Trump administration. To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats. But to some of her colleagues, she is giving a voice to those who feel they can’t speak out.Ortiz is an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—the...