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... In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers -- all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation's 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal -- a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles. ...

Engaged in top-secret work, tucked away in the Energy Department, the agency typically stays below the public radar. But it has emerged as a headline example of how the Trump administration's cuts, touted as a cure-all for supposed government extravagance and corruption, are threatening the muscle and bone of operations that involve national security or other missions at the very heart of the federal government's responsibilities. ...

@#4 ... Ever since I've taken this position, the only thing I've cared about is doing right by our service members -- soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and guardians," Hegseth said. ...

What has Sec Hegseth said about the crippling of the VA buy DOGE?

Or does he seem to care only about actively-serving members of the military?

@#6 ... becquerels ...

Had to look that one up ...