Will VA contradict OPM and affirm the dignity of serving veterans?

The federal government has taken a stance against the dignity of serving veterans, which my employer, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has thus far failed to contradict.

Federal workers have recently been receiving emails from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), advertising the infamous "fork in the road" program. This program promises us the opportunity to receive pay through September in exchange for quitting our jobs.  It is a means by which the Trump Administration (via Elon Musk's DOGE group) will terminate as many federal government jobs as possible, including VA jobs.

OPM made clear its reason for these terminations in an answer to a "Frequently Asked Question" about "fork in the road," which was emailed to all federal government employees weeks ago. 

The question of whether employees who choose to quit can work other jobs through September (while getting paid by the government) was answered thusly:

Absolutely! We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so. The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.

Thus, according to a proclamation from the federal government itself, public service, by its very nature, is inferior to service in the private sector (presumably of the for-profit sort).

Serving veterans, as I do, as a disability claims rater, is therefore inferior to for-profit work in general.

The real-world implications of this are of course vague:

Charging veterans fees for helping them process their claims generates more economic activity than processing claims for free.  So should I leave my job to start a company to charge veterans for services?  Would such a company that charges veterans for services be superior to one that helps them for free?  According to the simplistic logic of the OPM, if more money is circulated, the answer is an emphatic yes.

Doubtless, neither the OPM, nor Trump or Musk himself put that much thought into it.  These are just tech-savvy kids with little understanding of economics, making far-right noises.

But in a better world, leaders of VA might object to what OPM declared.  VA leaders might attempt to clarify that government services to help veterans are still worthy - - - and we, VA, merely got caught up in an email exchange meant for the truly unworthy federal government workers (such as those who protect our environment, our labor rights, and our public health).

In this moment, no such utterances will be made.  The dignity of serving veterans - yesterday the easiest imaginable value to affirm - shall not be made clear by VA leaders.  OPM declared that our profession is inferior and shameful, and this, for fear of upsetting the powerful, shall not be challenged.