How Trump Put Veteran Care in Crisis

Eight days after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump reactivated and expanded a bureaucratic purge he had launched eight years earlier. In a mass email, Trump’s Office of Personnel Management offered a stark choice to two million federal employees: immediately resign from your position and receive pay until an official exit date in the fall, or stay and face what the incoming administration promised would be an onslaught of cuts and chaos.

On its face, the choice may have looked easy.