Veterans
UPDATE DOT Invites Proposals for New Vendors on Fordham Plaza with a Deadline of April 11
UPDATE VA Dismisses An Additional 1,400+ Probationary Employees as Hochul Announces Plans to Hire Some
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Feb. 24 the dismissal of more than an additional 1,400 employees in non-mission critical positions. It followed a previous VA announcement of 1,000 dismissals on Feb. 13, which is part of what the Trump Administration says is its government-wide effort to make agencies more efficient.
UPDATE Trump Administration Layoffs on Advice of DOGE Worry Bronx Vets
Hours after rumors circulated on social media on Feb. 13 that members of the new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by unelected billionaire Elon Musk, a special federal government employee, would visit the Bronx VA Medical Center in Fordham Manor on Feb. 14, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the dismissal of 1,000 employees at unspecified VA sites across the country.
Council Member Eric Dinowitz Holds Landmark 80th Anniversary Holocaust Remembrance Event
To mark the solemn occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation by the Allied Forces of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and extermination camp where millions of Jewish people were killed and detained during World War II, New York City Council held a Holocaust Remembrance Event on Jan. 29, at City Hall.
Fear Palpable among Immigrant Community as Feds Converge on Bronx amid ICE Raids
Federal agents from a host of different law enforcement agencies converged last month on at least three locations in The Bronx, one in Manhattan, and another in Queens in efforts to detain undocumented migrants. The raids came days after Republican U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 22, suspending “the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.” This order had, in turn, followed a prior Jan. 20 executive order authorizing the detention of “unregistered aliens,” among other immigration-related actions.
