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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, acc to memo
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:23 pm
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act.
The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization in August to “resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure.” It also calls for agency officials to work with the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency to “move out aggressively, while taking a pragmatic and disciplined approach” to the Trump administration’s goals. Government Executive first reported on the internal memo.
As long as veterans are well cared for!
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act.
The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization in August to “resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure.” It also calls for agency officials to work with the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency to “move out aggressively, while taking a pragmatic and disciplined approach” to the Trump administration’s goals. Government Executive first reported on the internal memo.
As long as veterans are well cared for!
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Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:25 pm to conservativewifeymom
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As long as veterans are well cared for!
It’s the VA. I don’t think staffing levels will change the issues there.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:27 pm to Stonehenge
lol my mother in law is a vet and she quit going to the VA under Biden because of how long it took to get anything done.
She’s a lefty. I guarantee you she will sky scream about this even though those people weren’t good enough for her.
She’s a lefty. I guarantee you she will sky scream about this even though those people weren’t good enough for her.
This post was edited on 3/5/25 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:27 pm to conservativewifeymom
Veterans are gonna need to pull up their boot straps
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:29 pm to crewdepoo
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Veterans are gonna need to pull up their boot straps
So should the welfare leeches...
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:29 pm to conservativewifeymom
Anyone who has spent more than a day rotating at a VA knows there are way too many people working in those buildings….
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:30 pm to Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a well known groomer. Best to avoid him at all costs
This post was edited on 3/5/25 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:41 pm to onmymedicalgrind
quote:Many years ago when I was doing clinicals to finish up my degree, I was rotating around all of the Birmingham hospitals, even the old county, indigent hospital Cooper-Green. The VA was the one that stood out among all of them, and not in a good way. Whole lot of very lazy people who did the bare minimum.
Anyone who has spent more than a day rotating at a VA knows there are way too many people working in those buildings….
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:43 pm to conservativewifeymom
Ouch. A lot of those 80,000 people are veterans. At least they can now go to the private sector to earn an honest paycheck instead of leeching off of the taxpayers.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:44 pm to greygoose
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Whole lot of very lazy people who did the bare minimum.
This 100%. I went one time and knew that I was wasting my time.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 1:44 pm to conservativewifeymom
As a veteran, I'll go anywhere for medical care other than the VA.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:07 pm to teke184
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It’s the VA. I don’t think staffing levels will change the issues there.
BS! At the local VA Vet Center, whose services include counseling for needs such as, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they are poised to lose (2) counselors to these cuts. Those employees have been notified. The center is also instrumental in connecting veterans with more support from the VA and the local community, and they provide daily programs for veteran participation.
You can do this with the photo-op 'chain saw approach' or you can put some deliberate intellectual rigor into it and make cuts (which most agree are possible) with a scalpel where federal organizations have excess capacity. But by all means, continue to cut services to your supporters....
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:08 pm to greygoose
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Many years ago when I was doing clinicals to finish up my degree, I was rotating around all of the Birmingham hospitals, even the old county, indigent hospital Cooper-Green. The VA was the one that stood out among all of them, and not in a good way. Whole lot of very lazy people who did the bare minimum.
I remember rotating there right after the pandemic started. When they had like 15 people just sitting in the front "checking temperatures," it was obvious they were way over staffed
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:10 pm to conservativewifeymom
Yes, we should definitely keep paying people for jobs that are unnecessary, redundant or not being done efficiently. Libs are such corrupt dumbasses.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:12 pm to Stonehenge
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Trumps hatred of vets is well known
Yes, that's why 65% of them voted for him. Such a dumb comment.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:14 pm to conservativewifeymom
I admire President Trump but this is a major mistake! The one department you do not want to do this to is the Dept of Veterans Affairs. You are hurting the veterans. Damn!
This post was edited on 3/5/25 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:15 pm to conservativewifeymom
My dad was an army vet.
He went to VA facilities in the New Orleans area until he ultimately passed.
Very good doctors.
Terrible nurses and support staff and I mean terrible.
If you don’t have family- do not find yourself in a VA hospital.
Less than adequate care.
Also agree. Overstaffed. At the very least staffed with some extremely lazy people with bad attitudes.
He went to VA facilities in the New Orleans area until he ultimately passed.
Very good doctors.
Terrible nurses and support staff and I mean terrible.
If you don’t have family- do not find yourself in a VA hospital.
Less than adequate care.
Also agree. Overstaffed. At the very least staffed with some extremely lazy people with bad attitudes.
This post was edited on 3/5/25 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:17 pm to conservativewifeymom
This isn't a good thing
Posted on 3/5/25 at 2:43 pm to conservativewifeymom
This shouldn’t come as a surprise one bit.
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