Protesters will gather at Noon Friday in front of the Veterans Administration Building on Knighton Road. They’ll be demonstrating to support veterans services and call attention to the funding cuts and job terminations imposed on the V.A. from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The mass firing of federal employees since Trump took office in January is pushing out veterans who make up 30% of the nation’s federal workforce. The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the agency. Friday’s protest is organized by the Fifty-Fifty-One Movement, which promoted recent demonstrations in front of Redding City Hall against some of the actions of the Trump Administration.
-Steve Gibson