Twenty years later, Ghukas Gaziah served his country with pride in the US Armed Forces, including in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But in more than a year later, when he swore that he was swearing that he was the US Constitution to protect his civil servant, and he received his email on February 14, informing that his work was stopped.

“I gave my country for 20 years, and at that moment, when I saw that stoppage from my federal work, I really felt that I was alone,” said Gaziah. As it happens Host Nil Kӧksal.

“I think that many people do not understand that as I was a federal service, it was less work and called more.”

The first wave of 1,000 labor cuts in veterans' work (VA) targeted people who worked for two years or less. Now it is expected that 82,000 VA workers will lose their work under the new wave of reductions.

Chief of Staff Chief of Staff Christopher Sium, Christopher Session, managed the staff of the Staff of the Technological Billionaire Elon Musk Government (DOGE) and “Increase the efficiency of labor”.

Democrats and veterans' lawyers condemned the move. But the veterans are divided into the reduction in the department, which have long been tormented on charges of poor medical care. too long standby times.

Cutting is a part of Doge's wider civil service, which has already eliminated about 100,000 federal businesses through buyers and mass entertainment this year.

Veterans are divided

More than nine veterans from the United States receive physical and mental healthcare VA, which manages US dollar budget and controls about 200 medical centers and hospitals.

New York Hakobi J. According to Peters VA Medical Center, Gaziah says that if those removal continues, they will suffer the veterans depending on that service.

“Patients' wait times can climb. You know, it's time to get your doctor to see your doctor, you need to influence people who will affect “he said.

Daniel Ragsdale in Ariz, 45-year-old fleet veteran, Messama, Messia. He receives group therapy through VA for a mental illness, which was brain at a traumatic brain injury.

“I am deeply concerned, because VA has been nothing but me,” says combs. “I am angry, distressed and disappointed.”

Greg Buffundo – which served during the first Gulf war and caused nervous damage to his feet as carrying cargo of sea miner.

He lost his job as a desert ranger and firefighter, with the removal of the US Forest Service, and he will now have to return to VA for medical needs.

“They are preparing for me and my friends like my friends who rely on the VA on the ground,” said Bafundo, who lives in a festive, wash.

But JESUP, Stepanos Watson, who served in the marines for 22 years, receives care for a traumatic brain injury through VA – greeted the cuts.

“We are not better, because we are veterans,” said Vanks, the 68th anniversary. “We must all face step by step and realize that everyone's satisfaction should take a little chew to get those budgets under control.”

Richard Lamb, 74, Waco, Texas – who shot twice in Vietnam as an army helicopter staff head.

The Lamb says that decades, VA doctors failed to diagnose compression fractures on his vertebrates, and he did not receive the operation he needed until he saw a private doctor.

“I would be glad to see that WA would be filled, but cleansed, cleaned, cleaned and processed,” said the lamb, who lived in Vako, Texas. “VA is supposed to be a great thing for veterans. That's not the case. That sucks. “

Trump administration stands with that step. White House Deputy Spokesman Anna Kelly said that the president will retain the veterans' benefits, but it will not stand the “bureaucracy” in the agency.

“Absolutely crushed”

At the same time, Gaziah tells the fact that it is against reforms, or even VA is back. But he says that this is done in a careless manner that does not take into account who makes critical works or respects people who serve their country.

“There are things that make sense, and it is thinking and caring, and I have stopped the way that was on the mind.

“I was absolutely crushed. I climbed my right hand and swore to that position at the federal level.

From Reuters and Associated Press files. Interview with Chris Trowbridge with Ghukr Gazia