Veterans are being hit hard by Trump administration firings

CNN — When the Department of Government Efficiency swings an axe, it’s bound to hit a veteran who voted for President Donald Trump.

Veterans make up thirty percent of the federal workforce and more than sixty percent of veterans said Trump was their candidate, according to a Pew Research survey conducted two months before the 2024 election.

One veteran in Kansas who voted for Trump describes terminations that have upended the lives of many employees in his agency as a sudden military drawdown, poorly executed:

“I’m sorry to put it like this: it was like the pull out of Afghanistan,” he said.