Jennifer Nikolaeff slowly inhales and exhales at a free yoga class offered to residents of Washington, DC, where life has been upended by the return of President Donald Trump. On Valentine's Day, she was fired from USAID after 15 years of service across the globe. After two months of dramatic job losses among federal government workers, a sense of gloom has descended on the city, where thousands of jobs are threatened. Elana Woolf, a mental health therapist says she is seeing the impact of the job cuts on her patients - sadness, depression, the loss of confidence. "It's tough," she adds. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES