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TMI BlogTrump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memoX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... y 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 PAC ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... T Act. The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganisation 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. Veterans ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... have already been speaking out against the cuts at the VA, which so far had included a few thousand employees and hundreds of contracts. More than 25 per cent of the VA's workforce are veterans themselves. In Congress, Democrats have decried the cuts at the VA and other agencies, while Republicans have so far watched with caution the Trump administration's changes. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... op Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees veteran's affairs, said in a statement that the Trump administration “has launched an all-out assault" against progress the VA has made in expanding its services as the number of covered veterans grows and includes those impacted by toxic burn pits. “Their plan prioritises private sector profits over veterans' care, balancing the budget on the bac ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ks of those who served. It's a shameful betrayal, and veterans will pay the price for their unforgivable corruption, incompetence, and immorality," Blumenthal said in a statement.
Government Executive first reported on the internal memo. (AP) GSP X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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