In many cases it's not just one job. NIH grant funding, for example, remains frozen with no explanation of when it's going to restart. If I were in biomedical research I'd definitely be looking for options in other countries rather than rolling the dice on a potential 4 year pause in my career.

I guess. In this case maybe normal people that are priviledged enough to consider emigrating. What I meant is people with real and constructive professions. That happen to be affected by federal decisions.

I'm saying that with a bit of self-deprivation. These people in my opinion bring value to society with their jobs. In contrast to many IT roles where that can be a bit questionable sometimes. My own employment included.