DOGE cuts “will hit US military veterans’ health”

President Donald Trump’s cuts to the civil service will hit US military veterans especially hard, experts have warned. The Trump administration called for cutting about 83 000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides healthcare and many other benefits to veterans. Some nine million veterans used its services last year.

VA officials were told to reduce employment by about 17% from the department’s current 482 000 to the 2019 level of just under 400 000. The cuts were proposed by Elon Musk’s …