Anger and urgency again filled the air outside Manhattan’s Margaret Cochran Corbin VA Campus on Sunday as lawmakers, veterans, and union leaders rallied against the Trump Administration’s plan to slash 80,000 Department of Veterans Affairs jobs.
Led by Assembly Member Harvey Epstein, US Sen. Chuck Schumer, US Rep. Jerry Nadler, and state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez, the demonstration drew dozens of legislators, VA employees, and labor leaders demanding the plan be abandoned. They condemned the administration’s hollow assurances that veterans’ benefits would not be affected.
![From left to right: [identifying], Sofia Pajaj, Program Director of HANAC Harmony JVL Older Adult Center, NY State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, Andrea Jerves, Director of Programming and Development at HANAC, and House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14](https://queenspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_7647.jpg?w=1024)
