Abby Vesoulis
June 6, 2025
"On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no exception. Already, the sprawling agency serving America’s 16 million military veterans has fired 2,400 probationary workers and proposed eliminating an additional 15 percent of its workforce—about 80,000 people.">
The military usually votes to support the Republican Party. Mostly because they do a better job of protecting gun rights and usually have a better reremovedtion when it comes to supporting the military industrial complex and spending tax money on wars
But in 2016 when I was stationed out at Fort Riley, I knew way more people who hated Trump that I knew people who were willing to vote for him