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It's being here. Something's my mind. A little anger right now. I just saw this article in the San Diego newspaper. Its purpose is to scare veterans.

Headline is, I didn't think it would be this bad.

San Diego veterans worry that VA cuts will hurt their care.

And it's this whole article about the 80,000 people of the VA who Trump, the Trump

administration plans to fire.

Now, nowhere in the article does it get proper context, that if we cut 80,000 people from the VA,

that leaves us with 400,000 VA employees, which is the same amount of employees that the VA had in 2019.

So we have to go way back to 2019 to get the same number of jobs.

But of course, it also assumes that more people in the VA means better care.

And there's nothing in this article that talks about what those 80,000 people do at the VA.

Because the point here isn't to inform or enlighten.

It is to scare.

And it's to scare our veterans.

And I think it's shameful.

And it's sick.

Let me, and it starts off with this guy who has traumatic brain injury.

And let me quote this guy, now the article,

Now Conkron and other veterans in San Diego are worried about how their benefits could be impacted by the staffing scaleback and how far the cuts will go.

For some, the agency has already

targeted specific cuts to health care. Oh no. Specific cuts to VA health care. That's terrible.

announcing last week that it will no longer provide gender affirming care to transgender veterans.

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