Veterans At Santa Rosa Clinic Protest Trump's Plans To Cut Jobs At VA

CBS Bay Area

March 6, 2025

Amid ongoing federal employee layoffs ordered by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, one protest in the North Bay featured people who might traditionally be supportive of a conservative Republican president.

Outside the VA hospital in Santa Rosa, it wasn't a usual crowd of protestors. Veterans, many of them from the Vietnam War, were feeling betrayed.

"I thought it was pretty much hands off veterans, you know?" said Vietnam vet Joe Downing. "Nobody wants to say 'I sponsored a bill that cut the veterans' benefits.' But, being as Trump did it, all his lapdogs will do whatever he says."

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