Abby Vesoulis
June 6, 2025
"On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no exception. Already, the sprawling agency serving America’s 16 million military veterans has fired 2,400 probationary workers and proposed eliminating an additional 15 percent of its workforce—about 80,000 people.">
Burial services are provided by the National Cemetery Administration which is a part of the VA. That service has not (yet) been cut. Hopefully your metaphor is not prescient.
I get that people should not be surprised when the face eating leapord they voted for eats their face. But not everyone voted for him and less voted for these cuts to VA.
If not sympathy, try empathy. I hope we do not wind up in a future where Veteran are responsible for digging their own graves.