{"id":1051665,"date":"2025-02-25T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051665"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:28:17","slug":"icymi-punchbowl-news-thousands-of-veterans-likely-fired-under-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-punchbowl-news-thousands-of-veterans-likely-fired-under-doge\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Punchbowl News: Thousands of veterans likely fired under DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just over a month into office, Donald Trump has continued his yearslong crusade against our nation\u2019s veterans and their families \u2014 this time, likely firing thousands of veterans en masse as he pushes forward his $4.5 trillion tax cut for his ultra-wealthy friends. Veterans getting the short end of the stick under Trump is nothing new \u2014 this is the same person who has put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3326969\/va-layoffs-concerns-veterans-care\/#google_vignette\">health care for veterans in jeopardy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/16\/trump-medal-of-honor-00174404\">disparaged service members<\/a> time and again. Through all of this, one thing is clear: Trump and his billionaire Cabinet care more about their pocketbooks than our veterans, service members, and military families.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/washington\/veterans-fired-doge\/\"><strong>Punchbowl News<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Thousands of veterans likely fired under DOGE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee estimate that <strong>nearly 6,000 veterans may have already been fired from their federal jobs as part of the DOGE initiative<\/strong> run by mega-billionaire Elon Musk, with a lot more veteran layoffs possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Veterans make up a big portion of the federal workforce, at roughly 30%<\/strong>. The total number of federal employees was 2.3 million before any layoffs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>By far the biggest chunk of veterans who lose their jobs would be at the Defense Department, where vets make up more than 43% of the workforce<\/strong>, Democrats say.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Treasury Department, Justice Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs could also see big veteran firings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month into office, Donald Trump has continued his yearslong crusade against our nation\u2019s veterans and their families \u2014 this time, likely firing thousands of veterans en masse as he pushes forward his $4.5 trillion tax cut for his ultra-wealthy friends. Veterans getting the short end of the stick under Trump is nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Punchbowl News: Thousands of veterans likely fired under DOGE - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-punchbowl-news-thousands-of-veterans-likely-fired-under-doge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-25T20:28:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-25T20:28:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-punchbowl-news-thousands-of-veterans-likely-fired-under-doge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-punchbowl-news-thousands-of-veterans-likely-fired-under-doge\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Punchbowl News: Thousands of veterans likely fired under DOGE - 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