What this administration is doing isn’t about efficiency or improving care. It is about turning the VA into the worst of private health insurance — deny care and maximize shareholder value. Trump and Elon have made that perfectly clear.
Here’s how:
FIRST they fired 2400 VA staff. These were probationary hires, many of them Veterans themselves. Fresh talent and internal transfers or promotions — the pipeline for future sustainment of the VA.
THEN Trump’s former lawyer and current counsellor, Alina Habba, said that the Veterans Trump fired are “not fit to have a job at this moment.” To every Veteran that lost their job: “I really don’t feel sorry for them.” They know what they’re doing — and they don’t care.
NOW we’ve got leaked reports from inside the VA that Trump wants to fire another 83,000 VA staff. That’s a reduction of nearly 20%. There isn’t a single element of the VA that would be spared by these cuts. If they go through with it, Veterans will die for lack of care.
And remember: They’re doing this — deriding the Veterans and staff who do the work, firing them, and impacting service — to privatize the VA for good. It is a betrayal. Full stop.
Here’s how:
FIRST they fired 2400 VA staff. These were probationary hires, many of them Veterans themselves. Fresh talent and internal transfers or promotions — the pipeline for future sustainment of the VA.
THEN Trump’s former lawyer and current counsellor, Alina Habba, said that the Veterans Trump fired are “not fit to have a job at this moment.” To every Veteran that lost their job: “I really don’t feel sorry for them.” They know what they’re doing — and they don’t care.
NOW we’ve got leaked reports from inside the VA that Trump wants to fire another 83,000 VA staff. That’s a reduction of nearly 20%. There isn’t a single element of the VA that would be spared by these cuts. If they go through with it, Veterans will die for lack of care.
And remember: They’re doing this — deriding the Veterans and staff who do the work, firing them, and impacting service — to privatize the VA for good. It is a betrayal. Full stop.
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