Trump Decides to Screw and Betray Veterans

Neither Musk or Trump Served in the Military – The “Middle Finger”?

“Sonoma County veterans expressed shock, anger, and disappointment Wednesday at a protest outside the Santa Rosa VA health center, after President Trump’s Chief of Staff for the Veterans Administration sent a memo to VA officials ordering them to plan for an initial round of layoffs to reduce staffing to 2019 levels of under 400,000 VA employees.” [KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco]

“President Donald Trump’s plan to fire about 83,000 employees with the Department of Veterans Affairs was met with outrage from veterans groups and individuals who have served. A memo leaked on Wednesday revealed the department, “in partnership” with billionaire Elon Musk’s nebulous government cost-cutting task force DOGE, planned to return to 2019 staffing levels, Military.com reported.” [The Daily Beast, Jana Brancolini, March 6, 2025 – Betrayed Veterans Rage Over Trump’s Sweeping VA Cuts – About 83,000 Veterans Affairs employees are facing the axe in the name of “efficiency.”]

The new Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, tries to “justify” DOGE actions – Why are Comments Turned Off in Collins’s Video?

BUT, “The Middle Finger”?

“In a scene that has become familiar in Washington these days, angry federal workers and concerned members of Congress gathered outside a government office to protest the latest depredations of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) created by President Trump.

On February 13, the venue of the day was the Vermont Avenue headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), an agency with the second-largest workforce and third-largest budget in the federal government.

The Senate Democrats who rallied, in person or via press release, to “Protect Our Veterans” trained their fire on the evil meddling of the billionaire boss from Tesla, SpaceX, and X, the social media site previously known as Twitter.” [Prospect.org, Susanne Gordon, Steve Early, February 19, 2025 – A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets – Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.]