Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025

Floor Speech

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Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 1274 and ask that it be reported by number.

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Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. President, what Trump and Musk have done to our veterans in just 8 weeks since Trump has been back in office amounts to a total betrayal. He has already fired more veterans than any other President in modern history--6,000 and counting--for no apparent reason, forcing the bravest people you and I could ever meet to have to worry about how they are going to put food on their family's table next week or keep a roof over their heads next month.

These are folks who did one, two, six, seven tours and then came home and chose to continue serving their Nation by joining Federal service. These are heroes who deserve our utmost gratitude. Instead, Trump and Musk are giving them the middle finger.

Cadet Bone Spurs may like to wrap himself in the flag with one hand, but with the other, he is signing off on the orders that sell out our veterans to line billionaires' pockets, and our warriors deserve better.

That is one reason I am urging my colleagues to vote yes on my Protect Veteran Jobs Act--a simple amendment that would reinstate every veteran who has been fired because of Trump and Musk's betrayal.

If Republicans actually care about our veterans like they claim to on FOX News--

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Ms. DUCKWORTH.--then they will vote yes on this bill and help give our veterans their jobs back. Otherwise, they are making it clear that they would rather bow down at the altar of Donald Trump than stand up for our heroes.
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