Trump's Assault on Veterans Is Already Taking a Toll [View all]

Source: Rolling Stone

Trump’s Assault on Veterans Is Already Taking a Toll

Michael Embrich
Thu, May 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT 4 min read

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in early February titled “Remaking the Federal Workforce,” basically calling for a bunch of people to be fired. The Department of Veterans Affairs was initially exempted, but that language has since disappeared from the order.

The reversal is emblematic of the Trump administration’s two-faced relationship with the men and women who have given their lives to the United States.

Trump, Elon Musk, and VA Secretary Doug Collins have made a public show about how much they care about veterans, insisting they won’t be impacted by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s widespread gutting of the federal government. They have simultaneously been working behind the scenes to ensure the VA would suffer the most cuts of any federal agency.

How could both things be true? I believe Orwell called it doublethink, and the Trump administration is giving a masterclass in it.

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