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Cy Neff in Cheyenne

‘Streamline’ or ‘lifeline’? Wyoming veterans divided over Trump’s VA cuts

a man in a plaid shirt and military service cap salutes in front of a capitol building
Retired Vietnam veteran Foy Jolley Jr salutes as the casket of former senator Alan Simpson is unloaded for a processional at the Wyoming capitol in March. Photograph: Milo Gladstein/AP

Birgitt Paul has worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs (VA) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for more than a decade – five years on the floor, five and a half coordinating at-home care for veterans in the region.

Like many people working at the agency, she has her gripes with the system: it could be more efficient, more streamlined, easier to navigate for the veterans in need of its care, and better for the 400,000 employees that keep its wheels spinning.

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