(LR) Attorney Alina Habba, a former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate, spoke at a press conference held at Trump Tower in New York City on September 6, 2024.
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President Donald TrumpTop lawyer Alin Habba Ask Tuesday if there are some Veterans from The work of the federal government Be able to work or be willing to do so as part of the ongoing workforce.
“You know, we care a lot about veterans,” Haba White House.
“But, at the same time, we have the taxpayer dollars, and we have the financial responsibility to use the taxpayer dollars to pay for the people who are actually working,” said Haba, who holds the Trump advisor title.
“We will take care of them the right way, but maybe they are not suitable for finding a job at the moment or are unwilling to go to work,” she said.
“And we can’t, you know, I’m not going to take money from you, pay someone else, sorry, you know… they won’t go to work,” Haba said. “It’s unacceptable.”
The Trump administration is working to reduce the number of federal workers. How this is done, and personal stories like veterans and others affected by the cuts have led to a public fight back.
Habba was hours before Trump was scheduled to speak at a joint Congress meeting.
Senate Democrats said in a press release Tuesday that their speech guests will “including veterans because the Trump administration has mass-terminated veterans dispatched by a portion of federal employees.”
For example, minority leader Chuck Schumer, who had invited him as his guest Alissa Ellman, a disabled, toxic Army veteran who was fired from the Buffalo VA job during the mass termination of VA employees and Veterans by VA Secretary Doug Collins.
According to the report Personnel Management Office.
As of September 2021, the workforce has employed nearly 640,000 veterans. 53% of them are disabled,
The chairman of the National Republican Congress Committee recommended that Republican lawmakers stop holding face-to-face city halls at several events, with participants in these events strongly criticizing members of Congress.
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall left early after some attendees recruited federal layoffs and other issues at an event in his hometown of Kansas on Saturday.
Chuck Nunn, an attendee who identified himself as a conservative Democrat, told Marshall that he supported the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce fraud and waste in government spending.
“But I think the way we do this is so wrong because there are unexpected consequences,” Nunn said. High Plains Public Radio.
“I support veterans. But, what you are doing now, what the government is doing now, that’s the job, a lot of people, I know you care about veterans being veterans.”
“That’s shameful,” Nunn said. “That’s shameful.”
Marshall left the town hall after Nunn made a statement.
