The cuts were initially poised to affect nuclear defense programs and impact veterans’ mental health care, workers warned.

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.

The job cuts are being imposed unilaterally, without the approval of Congress to shrink or overhaul federal agencies.

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...