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IOWA CITY — Honks and cheers rang out Wednesday afternoon outside the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, where dozens of community members gathered in protest of the Trump administration’s treatment of Veterans Affairs Health Care employees, including the recent announcement that Veterans Affairs would be terminating union contracts.

“Federal employees have faced months of Trump administration attacks at the VA and other federal agencies, including illegal mass firings, arbitrary hiring freezes, and reckless termination of thousands of probationary employees in already understaffed facilities,” a news release about the protest, from the Iowa City Federation of Labor, states.

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