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Rally in Seattle on March 27 to ‘Keep the Promise’ to veterans
Our nation’s veterans deserve the highest quality of care, but the Trump administration and Congress are instead pushing VA privatization and exacerbating staffing shortages by firing frontline workers and refusing to hire the staffers necessary to provide that quality care.
Veterans didn’t serve our country overseas just to come back to wait in line for substandard care at private facilities. The best solution for our nation’s veterans is to fully staff every VA facility nationwide. By Secretary David Shulkin’s own admission, there are 49,000 vacancies at our nation’s Veterans Affairs installations. That is a national disgrace. Each one of these vacancies is a missed opportunity to make good on our nation’s promise to care for those who have served our country.
Please join AFGE and veterans’ supporters at the March 27 rally.