{"id":21590,"date":"2025-03-04T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=21590"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:53:44","slug":"in-rebuke-of-trump-administration-attacks-on-veterans-senate-democrats-make-defending-veterans-and-va-care-a-priority-at-joint-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/in-rebuke-of-trump-administration-attacks-on-veterans-senate-democrats-make-defending-veterans-and-va-care-a-priority-at-joint-address\/","title":{"rendered":"IN REBUKE OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS ON VETERANS, SENATE DEMOCRATS MAKE DEFENDING VETERANS AND VA CARE A PRIORITY AT JOINT ADDRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Senate Democrats\u2019 guests at tonight\u2019s speech to include veterans indiscriminately fired as part of the Trump Administration\u2019s mass terminations of federal government employees and the former VA Inspector General illegally fired by Trump<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[WASHINGTON, D.C.] \u2013 In light of President Donald Trump\u2019s mass termination of federal veteran employees and egregious attempts to slash Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) care and benefits, Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and a group of Senate Democrats are hosting terminated federal veteran employees and former VA Inspector General Michael Missal at President Donald Trump\u2019s Joint Address to Congress on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A full list of the Senators\u2019 guests can be found below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)<\/strong> <strong>is hosting former VA Inspector General Michael Missal.<\/strong> Missal was first appointed to serve as the VA IG in 2015 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2016. He served throughout Trump\u2019s first term and President Joe Biden\u2019s administration before being unlawfully terminated by Trump along with more than a dozen other independent Inspectors General in January. Over the last eight years, under the leadership of Missal, OIG oversight identified $45&nbsp;billion in savings, cost avoidance, and questionable costs. These efforts have saved taxpayer dollars, cracked down on waste, fraud, and abuse, and improved government efficiency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) is hosting Alissa Ellman, a disabled, toxic-exposed Army veteran who was illegally and indiscriminately fired from her job at the Buffalo VA during VA Secretary Collins\u2019 mass terminations of VA employees and veterans. <\/strong>Alissa worked helping fellow veterans and their families obtain their hard-earned benefits. She served in Afghanistan and was diagnosed in 2017 with a rare cancer associated with toxic burn pit exposure during her service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is hosting Jason King, a disabled veteran from Fairfax, Virginia who was fired from his position in the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s safety division as a result of the Trump Administration\u2019s attacks on the federal workforce.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) is hosting Amelia Huffman, a U.S. Navy veteran who was laid off from her job in the US Forest Service (USFS) at the Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland during the Trump Administration\u2019s mass terminations of federal employees.<\/strong> Veterans like Amelia make up 30% of the federal workforce.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) is hosting Rory Badger, a two-tour marine combat veteran and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee who was illegally fired under Trump\u2019s mass terminations. <\/strong>After serving his country in Afghanistan, Badger worked as a biologist for the USDA\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Salisbury, Maryland until he was fired last month without notice and without cause.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senator Jeff Merkely (D-OR) is hosting Isabella Isaksen\u2014a U.S. Army veteran and Olympian\u2014who recently served as the public affairs officer for Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland in Central Oregon. <\/strong>Isabella Isaksen has a long history of honorably serving our nation. In 2016, she represented the United States as a modern pentathlete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. A year later, she became one of the first women in the U.S. Army to become a field artillery soldier, which is a combat arms specialty. After leaving the military, she moved to Oregon to work for the USFS, where she communicated critical public health and safety information so Central Oregonians could stay safe and connected during the destructive 2024 wildfire season. Without this position, and countless others in the USFS that provide essential support to fire crews, Oregon\u2019s public lands, industries, and communities are at great risk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is hosting Kyle Rahn, a disabled veteran and federal worker who was recently fired due to Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE cuts to the federal workforce. <\/strong>Kyle, a North Phoenix resident, is a disabled Army veteran who served three tours in Iraq before continuing his public service as a civilian at the Department of Defense and later at the Department of Homeland Security as a national security professional. Despite 16 years of dedicated public service and his perfect record as an employee, he was fired two weeks ago via email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is hosting Andrew Lennox, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee in Ann Arbor before he was fired by DOGE. <\/strong>Andrew was born and raised in Romeo, Michigan and received his bachelor\u2019s in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic from Western Michigan University in 2011. After graduating from college, Andrew enlisted in the Marines, where he served as an infantryman and recruiter for 10 years and was deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Andrew was hired in the Primary Care Division at VA in Ann Arbor in December and was fired by DOGE by email in February.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) is hosting Ottis Johnson, Jr., the National Vice President of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> District of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and a proud veteran of the United States Army. <\/strong>AFGE District 14 represents hundreds of thousands of federal workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Blumenthal and Senate Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veterans.senate.gov\/services\/files\/B0034763-E5BE-4A46-8906-0840A541C686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called on<\/a> President Donald Trump to cease his attack on our nation\u2019s heroes and immediately reinstate all veterans who have been illegally fired in his Administration\u2019s mass terminations of federal employees with their full back pay and benefits. Veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce, with 640,000 veterans working in federal agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump Administration\u2019s mass terminations have already led to the unprecedented firing of an estimated 6,000 veterans. The Senators emphasized these terminations have been done in an \u201cabrupt, inconsistent, unjustified, and unlawful way with no consultation with Congress and absolutely no transparency or accountability to the American people.\u201d The Administration has not provided Congress with information detailing the exact number of veterans fired. In addition, many of these terminated employees had exemplary performance records and multiple years of work experience in government service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats\u2019 guests at tonight\u2019s speech to include veterans indiscriminately fired as part of the Trump Administration\u2019s mass terminations of federal government employees and the former VA Inspector General illegally fired by Trump&nbsp; [WASHINGTON, D.C.] \u2013 In light of President Donald Trump\u2019s mass termination of federal veteran employees and egregious attempts to slash Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":18845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-21590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-protecting-consumers-taxpayers-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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