Abby Vesoulis
June 6, 2025
"On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no exception. Already, the sprawling agency serving America’s 16 million military veterans has fired 2,400 probationary workers and proposed eliminating an additional 15 percent of its workforce—about 80,000 people.">
There are people who voted for Trump in the military, but I don’t think it’s significantly higher than the number of veterans who just would’ve voted Republican, white for any of our Republican candidate. I think the military going heavy on support for Trump is a stereotype.