Mini-Post: The VA

The Valentine Day massacre of the Veterans Affairs on Monday...

The Rolling Stone wrote about layoffs at the VA in Trump and Musk’s Valentine’s Day Massacre of Military Veterans,

On the eve of this Valentine’s Day, that is the brutal blow Trump and Musk have dealt to America’s veterans. The administration this week began aggressively laying off thousands of government employees across multiple agencies, hitting veterans hard. The Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed late Thursday night that it has let go of more than 1,000 probationary employees this week.

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Trump’s administration has launched a full-scale attack on veterans, their families, and federal workers who support them. A third of all federal employees are military veterans, and make no mistake, the latest round of layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs is just the beginning.

Trump’s executive order, “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative,” imposes one of the most damaging federal workforce policies in history. For every four employees who leave, only one can be replaced. For an already understaffed VA, this is a disaster. Veterans’ medical care, disability claims, and support services depend on an adequate workforce. Slashing hiring ensures growing backlogs, worsening care, and increased suffering for those who rely on VA services. With an aging veteran population and an expanded VA mission under previous administrations, now is the time to invest in the VA, not gut it.

This from a president who referred to fallen soldiers as "suckers" and "losers!

This new bureaucratic bottleneck ensures hiring will stall completely, leaving veterans without the services they need. But that may be the point — by making the VA so dysfunctional, veterans will either suffer in silence or be forced into the private sector, where profits come before care.

Welcome to the new military where a White Christian Nationalist was put in charge!