Veteran entrepreneurs say VA cuts have gutted their businesses
In less than a week, a former Air Force logistician lost 50% of his business revenue and was forced to lay off 45 employees, including other veterans, when the Department of Veterans Affairs canceled a slew of contracts with his business.
Building on his logistics training in the Air Force, Robert Betters opened RB Consulting, Inc., a supply chain and information technology management firm that contracts with the VA and other agencies. Last week, seven of the company’s contracts were canceled by the VA among the $2 billion of cuts ordered by the new VA Secretary Doug Collins.
Betters, who started his business 20 years ago, told Task & Purpose that he doesn’t “fault the government for anything,” and that he understands the direction that the VA and federal government are going with recent cuts.
“I just worry about my employees,” Betters said, who is president of the National Veteran Small Business Coalition’s board of directors, NVSBC, an organization that advocates for veteran entrepreneurs in federal contracting. “My key concern is that now that a lot of people are being laid off, can people find jobs in a timely manner?”
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