{"id":38050,"date":"2025-04-06T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/streamline-or-lifeline-wyoming-veterans-divided-over-trumps-va-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:13:12","slug":"streamline-or-lifeline-wyoming-veterans-divided-over-trumps-va-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/streamline-or-lifeline-wyoming-veterans-divided-over-trumps-va-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Streamline\u2019 or \u2018lifeline\u2019? Wyoming veterans divided over Trump\u2019s VA cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the lower 48 state with the highest share of veterans, some denounce and others praise Doge-led mass layoffs<\/p>\n<p>Birgitt Paul has worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs (VA) in Cheyenne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a>, for over a decade \u2013 five years on the floor, five and a half coordinating at-home care for veterans in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Like many people working at the agency, she has her gripes with the system \u2013 it could be more efficient, more streamlined, easier to navigate for the veterans in need of its care, and better for the 400,000 employees that keep its wheels spinning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/06\/wyoming-veterans-affairs-trump-doge-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lower 48 state with the highest share of veterans, some denounce and others praise Doge-led mass layoffs Birgitt Paul has worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs (VA) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for over a decade \u2013 five years on the floor, five and a half coordinating at-home care for veterans in the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Streamline\u2019 or \u2018lifeline\u2019? Wyoming veterans divided over Trump\u2019s VA cuts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/streamline-or-lifeline-wyoming-veterans-divided-over-trumps-va-cuts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Streamline\u2019 or \u2018lifeline\u2019? Wyoming veterans divided over Trump\u2019s VA cuts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}