Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Public Occurrences, March 5, 2025

Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo

The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency Tuesday that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act.
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Veterans have already been speaking out against the cuts at the VA that so far had included a few thousand employees and hundreds of contracts. More than 25% of the VA’s workforce is comprised of veterans.
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“What’s going to happen is VA’s not going to perform as well for veterans, and veterans are going to get harmed,” said [Michael] Missal, VA Inspector General until Trump dismissed him.


This is a dangerous move by Trump. Veterans are already trained to kill.

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Trump grants one-month tariff delay for U.S. automakers

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had spoken Wednesday with the “Big 3” American automakers, Ford, GM and Stellantis.
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Who told him that their profits would be wiped out.
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