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Bernie Sanders Goes All In Against Trump and Musk Over Putting Veterans First Act"
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13/3/2025
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Thank you, Senator Blumenthal, and thank you for your great work as the ranking member
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and your authorship of this important legislation.
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As Senator Blumenthal just mentioned, despite progress under the Biden administration in
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the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, the VA reported over 36,000 vacancies at the Veterans
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Health Administration, including 2,400 doctors, 6,300 registered nurses, 1,800 social workers,
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3,400 schedulers, and 1,200 custodians.
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In other words, the agency was already short-staffed.
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Yet as we speak, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying to dismantle the VA by laying off
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an additional 83,000 employees.
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Despite today's court decision, they have already fired 2,500 probationary employees
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at the VA, many of them disabled veterans themselves.
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All across our country, people are shaking their heads, and they're asking, how does
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it happen that the wealthiest person in the world, a guy worth hundreds of billions of
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dollars, is making life more difficult, is sacrificing the health and well-being of veterans
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of this country, the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend us?
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But it's not just Americans all over the country.
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The veterans community itself, representing millions of people who put the uniform on,
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they're asking the same questions.
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And that is why the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the VFW, has recently said, and I quote,
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we call upon VA to reconsider its planned reduction of 83,000 employees and thoroughly
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review any proposed cuts before rolling out further announcements like this.
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End of quote.
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I agree with the VFW.
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The paralyzed Veterans of America said that they are, quote, deeply troubled by actions
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taken, by actions being taken in Washington, D.C. that are already having a detrimental
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impact on the services that veterans with spinal cord injuries and diseases like ALS
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and MS rely upon.
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End of quote.
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The disabled American veterans said, quote, we are extremely concerned about the leaked
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proposal to arbitrarily eliminate 80,000 VA employees.
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Our hearts are with the many veterans who are or will be losing their jobs.
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We worry about service-disabled veterans with small businesses who may be devastated
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by canceled contracts, particularly if they impact services to our community.
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But foremost, we are concerned for the veterans who are contacting us with fear and anxiety
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about the future of the benefits, services, and healthcare they rely on.
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That is what the Veterans Organizations of America are saying.
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And let us not forget, as Senator Blumenthal mentioned, nearly 900,000 civilian federal
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employees are either veterans' spouses or spouses of active military members, representing
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30 percent of the entire federal government workforce.
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An estimated 6,000 veterans have been fired across the entire federal workforce so far,
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and more are likely to be fired if we don't take a stand.
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In defending these layoffs, the VA has stated that the personnel moves will save the department
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more than $181 million a year.
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$181 million.
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Well, guess what?
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The Trump administration, as we speak, is proposing to provide the wealthiest people
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in this country with over $1 trillion in tax breaks over a 10-year period.
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In other words, they are sacrificing the needs of veterans who put their lives on the line
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to defend our country in order to make billionaires like Elon Musk even richer.
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And that is a tradeoff that the American people, whether you're Republican, Democrat, or independent,
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do not support.
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So let us be clear.
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We have got to go forward in a bipartisan way, as Senator Blumenthal just said.
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This is not a Democrat issue.
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It's not a Republican issue.
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This is an American issue.
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Today, we tell Elon Musk that the people of America stand with the veterans, the heroes
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and heroines who defended us, and we're going to protect their interests.
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Well done.
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Senator Gallego.
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