US Veterans

[Gregory Matthews]

The federal government is the single largest employer of veterans in the country, said Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union that represents 110,000 federal employees. 

Nearly 30% of the more than 2.2 million federal employees are veterans, he said. More than half of those veterans are disabled, according to the latest publicly available data by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

 

Erwin fears nearly a half-million veterans could go jobless under Trump’s stated cost-cutting plan to gut the federal workforce and drastically cut federal spending — and he worries their struggles won’t end there.