Veterans Furious at Elon Musk

Veterans shafted by cuts from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are speaking out — and they don't have much nice to say to the unelected billionaire-in-chief. Released within a few days of each other, new campaigns from VoteVets, a progressive political action committee, and the 93-year-old charity Disabled American Veterans (DAV) take Musk and his Republican boosters to task for firing tons of vets in pursuit of seemingly endless austerity. As Military.com reports, the DAV's "Protect Veterans" campaign has published videos from irked veterans whose roles were eliminated under Musk's DOGE hatchet job. Many were blindsided by their abrupt terminations, which sound very much like the way the billionaire laid people off at Twitter when he first bought it back in 2022. Army veteran and federal emergency management worker Katherine Hathaway, for instance, said in her video statement that she had just been deployed to the US border with Mexico when she found out she w ... Read full article.