“I guess it’s cheaper to give the DNC $18 million than keep promises because @MikeBloomberg just fired his whole campaign staff — including those of us promised jobs though November on his IE,” Amol Jethwani, a former aide, wrote in a tweet. “Disappointed I don’t have a job. Not surprised that a billionaire is cheating scum.”

Several other former aides said in interviews that the news comes as a massive blow amid the tanking economy. They believe the campaign has repeatedly strung them along while misrepresenting future opportunities.

“I am disgusted by Mike Bloomberg and his staff," one of the Bloomberg aides, who like several others spoke on the condition of anonymity, told POLITICO on Friday. "He has left us with no health insurance during this pandemic. I have a family and do not know what we will do at the end of the month."

The person added, "If the DNC and Joe Biden choose to ignore us, they are complicit as well. How can the party claim to care about working Americans while taking money from a billionaire that does not fulfill his promises to his employees?”

POLITICO previously reported that Bloomberg was laying off hundreds of staffers around the country and paying them through March 31, though they would be allowed to keep their Bloomberg-issued iPhones and MacBooks (which would be taxed as income).

But the campaign indicated at the time that those staffers would be given priority to apply for jobs in six battleground states that were to be funded by the planned super PAC.

Those already working for him in the battleground states had planned to stay on his payroll to work on the nominee’s behalf. A planned internal staff conference call with those employees Wednesday was kicked over to Friday, when they, too, were told that Bloomberg was pulling out and they’d lose their jobs.

Pennsylvania State Director Kevin Kinross, on a separate call with his staff in the state Friday, called the edict “disappointing and (an) abrupt end to everything.”

Kinross said he suspected that it was a small group decision.

“To have people sort of twisting in the wind for all this time when you literally have the resources to make up the rules however you want them to be,” Mustafa Rashed, the communications director in the state, added on the call. “I feel bad for the people who moved their lives, their selves, their family to come to Pennsylvania or any other state to work and then to be uprooted during the midst of a global pandemic, I don’t know, it’s not good.”

Several aides who asked to remain anonymous because of non-disclosure agreements they signed with Bloomberg said the perk of being paid all year was what motivated them to join the campaign in the first place. Some said they had yet to receive promised relocation expenses.

Others pointed to the millions Bloomberg is separately sinking into coronavirus response efforts as tone deaf at a time when aides who worked long hours in call centers on his behalf will have to foot their own costs.

A Bloomberg spokesperson said in a prepared statement that the DNC Coordinated Campaign is hiring in the six battleground states. “And we will assist the DNC as much as we are able to, including by providing names of staff and working to help them onboard and grow their program as expediently as possible,” the spokesperson said.

Additionally, they said staff in the six battleground states that were let go Friday would be employed and paid through the first week in April and have full benefits through the end of April.

“This is the largest contribution from a campaign to the DNC in recent history,” they said. “Although Mike suspended his campaign, he remains committed to defeating Trump and we hope all our staff submit their names for positions with the DNC Coordinated Campaign this transfer will help fund.”

The spokesperson did not immediately confirm how many staffers were let go Friday or in the previous round. But Bloomberg had more than 2,000 people spread out across the country and hundreds more at his New York headquarters.

Bloomberg dropped out after a disastrous showing on Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden.

Bloomberg’s hiring materials from headquarters shared with POLITICO stated that regardless of what happened to his own campaign, field organizers could expect to have a job with “Team Bloomberg” through November, though it didn’t promise interviewees where they would be based. It outlined that organizers would be paid $6,000 a month, plus a $5,000 relocation stipend and full health, dental and vision benefits.

In one staff email, an aide cited Campaign Manager Kevin Sheekey’s March 6 note in which he pasted a news report reiterating plans to keep field operations going in the half-dozen battleground states regardless of whether Bloomberg became the nominee. A spokesperson confirmed that was the plan after the first round of layoffs earlier this month.

The pledge was so well established in some non-battleground states that it was used as a frequent motivator by supervisors to encourage sometimes exhausted staffers. It was also raised in at least two statewide training sessions where officials traveled from headquarters.

On the Pennsylvania call, a woman asked Kinross whether the state campaign knew whether the DNC was going to try to keep people who have uprooted their entire lives to the state of Pennsylvania.

“No, we don't, we don’t ...There’s no answer,” he replied. “All the decisions are going to be the DNC’s.”

