The VA won't share the number of jobs cut in Kansas but promises transparency for any future restructuring as they seek to remove 80,000 employees.
If implemented, the layoffs would bring the department down to the level of employees it had before the PACT Act, the wide-ranging 2022 law that expanded VA health care and benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances.
GSA has asked 15 other agency heads “to reduce their agency charge card limits, and the number and usage of cards.”
The union for VA workers rallied on Leavenworth in opposition to the plan to cut more than 80,000 positions at the agency.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will slash more than 80,000 jobs under a major restructuring plan that the agency intends to carry out by August to meet President Donald Trump’s executive order for downsizing the federal government,
VA is preparing to lay off as many as 80,000 workers in coming weeks, according to an internal memo obtained by ABC News.
The list of contracts on the chopping block hasn't been made public, and the VA declined to provide it. NBC News reviewed documents identifying 200 of the contracts scheduled for cancellation.
Milwaukee VA employees were first advised to comply with an Elon Musk directive to detail their work accomplishments, then were told it's not required.
The memo instructs Department of Veterans Affairs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization to “resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs has fired more than 2,400 employees in February as part of a wider government effort to reduce spending.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Wednesday paused an effort to terminate hundreds of contracts after pressure from Democrat lawmakers, according to Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee