'A betrayal': Veterans reel as understaffed agency calls privatization fears a 'far-left canard'

'A betrayal': Veterans reel as understaffed agency calls privatization fears a 'far-left canard'

Since Donald Trump's return to the White House six and one-half months ago, his administration has — with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — carried out mass layoffs at a variety of federal government agencies, from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the National Weather Service (NWS). Trump claims the layoffs are designed to combat "waste, fraud and abuse," but his cr…