{"id":28953,"date":"2025-11-09T00:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:57:06","slug":"veterans-rally-in-pittsburgh-to-protect-va-from-cuts-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28953\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans rally in Pittsburgh to protect VA from cuts \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Veterans made their voices heard on behalf of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Common Defense, a national veterans organization, rallied at the Pittsburgh VA in the city\u2019s Terrace Village neighborhood on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers said they\u2019re calling on lawmakers to protect veterans\u2019 health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe want a fully funded, fully staffed VA,\u201d Army veteran Angela Montalvo said. \u201cWe want the workers to have their collective bargaining rights reinstated. All of these things are necessary for us to get the care that we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers said they\u2019ve spoken with several veterans who are struggling right now, amid the furloughs and SNAP benefit cuts, adding that cuts in the VA would only do more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Veterans made their voices heard on behalf of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Common Defense,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14756,18670,18668,18666,3831,18667,73,75,74,18661,3478,5767,18669,18663,18664,18665,8735,2349,18662],"class_list":["post-28953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-benefits","tag-common-defense","tag-doge","tag-furloughs","tag-health-care","tag-job-cuts","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-va","tag-rally","tag-snap-benefits","tag-snap-cuts","tag-u-s-department-of-veterans-affairs","tag-va","tag-va-cuts","tag-veteran","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}