Doug Jackson liked working for the federal government.
A U.S. Marine veteran who served in the Iraq War, he worked for a stretch at NASA and then in January took a job in the Internal Revenue Service’s Orlando office. The federal government — which encouraged veterans to apply — offered a stable, familiar workplace and one that counted his four years of military service toward retirement benefits.
Not any more. Jackson, 40, of Orlando, this week found himself among the estimated 30,000 federal employees to suddenly lose their jobs amid the Trump administration’s mass firings across swaths of federal agencies…