Donald Trump ’s administration has long been selling the lie that they are doing everything they can to care for veterans . “Veterans can look at their country with pride knowing that we’re taking care of them, just like you told me to do,” Doug Collins , the secretary of the Department for Veterans Affairs, told Trump during a Cabinet meeting last week. “I asked you what to do, you said, ‘Go take care of my veterans.’ Well, that’s what we’re doing.”

In reality, the administration has waged an all-out assault on the welfare of the men and women who served the nation. The latest blow, appropriately coming ahead of Labor Day, all but entirely strips VA employees of their ability to organize as a workforce.

On August 6, the VA terminated most of its collective bargaining agreements

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