02/03/2025
BREAKING: War hero Senator Tammy Duckworth torches Trump for stabbing our brave veterans in the back by gutting Veterans Affairs: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history."
And she was just getting warmed up...
"Well what they're calling 'non-mission critical,' I think you and I and the average American would disagree with them that these are 'non-mission critical,'" said Duckworth on CNN.
Duckworth served as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and lost both of her legs when her Black Hawk was hit by a rocket-propelled gr***de. She is a recipient of the Purple Heart, an Air Medal, and an Army Commendation Medal.
She served as the Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Obama and serves on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. In other words, she knows this issue inside and out.
"How does a surgeon perform an operation without a surgical nurse? Without a surgical assistant? We're already hearing that surgeries are being cancelled or postponed at the VA," Duckworth continued.
She was discussing the mass layoffs that have rocked the Department of Veterans Affairs thanks to the efforts by Trump and Elon Musk to dismantle our federal government. 1,400 employees were fired yesterday, following 1,000 terminations earlier this month.
All of these layoffs are designed to lay the foundation for more tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. The Republican Party's claim to be "pro-military" is an insulting farce. The only thing they are is pro-greed.
"I have one person who is a crisis hotline supervisor — this is someone who did such a good job they were promoted, now they're training other crisis hotline, the people who answer the phones, they're there with them as they're being trained up to answer the phones — and that person is still laid off," said Duckworth.
"Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history," she continued. "And this has to stop because these are hard working people and it's really an insult to all of the federal employees who are making sure that the system is running."
"You know some of these folks are people that do claims processing making sure that veterans have access to the benefits that they've earned. They've been laid off," she added.
Unless the American people stand up and demand an end to this, the VA will be completely reduced to ash. In its place, predatory companies will swoop in to reap sweetheart deals from the Trump administration — providing vastly inferior services for higher costs.