Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.

According to administrators and former workers who kept Veterans Administration hospitals up, running and meeting the needs of U.S. veterans, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has brought nothing but disaster to their mission.

This decorated veteran-turned-veterans’ therapist shared his distress when The War Horse reached out to VA workers across the country to get a look at how the frenzy to downsize the federal government is impacting care for the nine million veterans who rely on VA.