Just a week before Christmas the Department of Veterans Affairs was caught deleting over 35,000 positions across the country that they had left unfilled for the last year. VA Secretary Doug Collins is scrambling to spin the cuts as nothing but we know it now adds up to over 70,000 lost positions that are already hurting veterans healthcare. Why are they doing it? You already know…money. Privatizing VA and veterans support to the tune of a TRILLION dollars is in the works. Fred shows how VA is the canary in the colemine for our entire government under Trump and Project 2025. He sits down with long time veteran and veterans advocate Paul Sullivan. In 2025, Paul retired after more than three decades of successful Veteran advocacy, starting from the grassroots with fellow Gulf War Veterans in 1992 before reaching the senior levels of government and non-profit organizations. Paul's advocacy background focuses heavily on improving access to VA care and benefits, especially especially Gulf War illnesses and PTSD. He most recently worked as the Director of Veteran Outreach at Bergmann & Moore, a national law firm managed by VA-accredited attorneys providing training and appellate litigation support to Veterans and advocates. Paul's government advocacy experience includes his appointment by California Governor Brown to be a Deputy Secretary at CalVet in Sacramento plus his federal civil service career as a GS-14 project manager at VA central office in Washington, DC. His non-profit advocacy leadership includes the National Gulf War Resource Center, Veterans for Common Sense, and the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute.
Learn more about the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute at veteranspolicy.org
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