Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.
  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    15·
    4 days ago

    Or he could tax billionaires a little. This is a choice between veterans and billionaires. The billionaires will still be billionaires either way.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      It is worse than not making billionaires pay more. He is firing all these people as a pretext to giving billionaires more tax breaks because the government is more ‘efficient’.

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 days ago

        Loyal service to retire, poof, gone. What the hell are these guys supposed to do at 50?

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      This has nothing to do with the federal budget. Congress already appropriated the money, this is just straight up evil.