Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs

[1srelluc]

Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.

apnews.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.



482,000 Now - 80,000= 402,000 left...Talk about bloat!

From what I'm hearing from the people who have worked there for years they have a boatload of probationary staff that were parked there when Biden was padding the employment numbers. Lots of DEI leftovers too.

 

[rightwinger]

I see no way you can cut the VA by 80,000 without affecting veterans services

Trump does not care about our veterans. He thinks they are suckers

 

[1srelluc]

There are 480000 VA employees for 18million vets.

So one VA employee for every 38 vets.

But only about half of the veteran population reaches out for any sort of VA benefit in any given year.

So actually, it's one VA employee for every 19 vets.

So that means the average VA employee spends more than two working weeks per veteran per year.....Nah, I don't think so either.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

If the VA has over 80,000 employees why is veteran care so abysmal?

 

[pknopp]

Mid terms should be interesting with a 20% unemployment rate.

 

[Meister]

Mid terms should be interesting with a 20% unemployment rate.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Mid terms should be interesting with a 20% unemployment rate.

Good grief

 

[1srelluc]

Damn, this is how my wife described FEMA when she retired as far as featherbedding went.

From an ARMCOM former VA worker.

I recently separated from the VA in the fall of last year. The growth from the medical side of the house from a micro level was disgusting.

When I started there was a Director and subsequent directors for each department (medicine, nursing, etc) and each had an assistant (not a secretary, but assistant director of medicine/ nursing).

When I left, the director and assistant directors were still there, but, over a 4 year period, nursing had (I kid you not) 4 assistants to the assistant, medicine had two, and TBH I don’t know the other departments (the director, oddly, kept one assistant throughout this time). That’s 6 six figured positions......Four years and no one could figure out what they did.

The nursing director pealed staff from a neighboring hospital and, coincidently enough, was dumb enough to keep her social media public so all could see them on vacations together before they were hired. Odd…

- EastRiverSD

 

[mudwhistle]

I see no way you can cut the VA by 80,000 without affecting veterans services

Trump does not care about our veterans. He thinks they are suckers

Come-on??????

Do you really believe that lie?

 

[elektra]

Mid terms should be interesting with a 20% unemployment rate.

You are right, I had no idea the government bureaucracy got so fat and bloated with wast that at reached 20% of our population.

The government is a welfare employer, giving jobs to the mentally defective democrats

 

[SassyIrishLass]

VA manager's email mocks veteran suicides

American Legion commander in Indiana calls for firing of VA manager who wrote mocking email

www.indystar.com

 

[mudwhistle]

Damn, this is how my wife described FEMA when she retired as far as featherbedding went.

From an ARMCOM former VA worker.

I recently separated from the VA in the fall of last year. The growth from the medical side of the house from a micro level was disgusting.

When I started there was a Director and subsequent directors for each department (medicine, nursing, etc) and each had an assistant (not a secretary, but assistant director of medicine/ nursing).

When I left, the director and assistant directors were still there, but, over a 4 year period, nursing had (I kid you not) 4 assistants to the assistant, medicine had two, and TBH I don’t know the other departments (the director, oddly, kept one assistant throughout this time). That’s 6 six figured positions......Four years and no one could figure out what they did.

The nursing director pealed staff from a neighboring hospital and, coincidently enough, was dumb enough to keep her social media public so all could see them on vacations together before they were hired. Odd…

- EastRiverSD

I remember when I was working for the Army Dept, we had a guy that was elected Union President, and he never worked. He just sat at the union hall drinking coffee and smoking.

 

[rightwinger]

Come-on??????

Do you really believe that lie?

OK

Explain how you can cut one in six employees and not affect services to veterans

 

[elektra]

OK

Explain how you can cut one in six employees and not affect services to veterans

They are dei hires

 

[SassyIrishLass]

OK

Explain how you can cut one in six employees and not affect services to veterans

Depends on what the job entails

I'll bet it's not doctors, nurses, therapists, etc. Just overweight administrative

 

[mudwhistle]

OK

Explain how you can cut one in six employees and not affect services to veterans

Easy. You get rid of people who aren't contributing or not working while removing regulations that bog up the system.

When I left the federal government 4 years ago I spent roughly 30% of my time taking classes online and doing paperwork.

 

[rightwinger]

Depends on what the job entails

I'll bet it's not doctors, nurses, therapists, etc. Just overweight administrative

I don’t care how you cut it, 1/6 of your workforce will affect veterans service.
Even those paper pushers answer veterans questions, arrange appointments, process claims, procure medical equipment

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I don’t care how you cut it, 1/6 of your workforce will affect veterans service.
Even those paper pushers answer veterans questions, arrange appointments, process claims, procure medical equipment

Or sit on their ass.

Streamline it, put the money into the people that actually help veterans

 

[1srelluc]

Easy. You get rid of people who aren't contributing or not working while removing regulations that bog up the system.

When I left the federal government 4 years ago I spent roughly 30% of my time taking classes online and doing paperwork.

LOL....The wife was always having to take "classes".....She would call me in and say "look at this".

They all looked like some cheap class a DEI hire would put together.

I tried to get her to let me take the tests for her but she was afraid I'd get her fired.

 

[Couchpotato]

I see no way you can cut the VA by 80,000 without affecting veterans services

Trump does not care about our veterans. He thinks they are suckers

482k people work for the VA. He's saying 80 which likely means it ends up at 40 so less than a 10% reduction in man power,, but even if it ends up at 80 its less than a 20% reduction. I'm willing to bet there isn't a single Government agency who isn't bloated by at least 25%. If Trump said he was going in increase the manpower at the VA you'd ***** about that as well. Or if he said he was going to keep it the same you'd complain.