Veterans who were fired from the federal workforce in the wave of the Trump administration job cuts called their dismissals a betrayal of their service to the nation in uniform and in the civil service, according to a report from the Disabled American Veterans service organization. In video statements released Monday by the DAV, nine of the more than 80 veterans – some of them disabled and some from the veterans community at large – said in response to the DAV’s “Protect Veterans” campaign, an effort to showcase the plight of fired veterans, that they were blindsided by their terminations, which have been directed by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
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