VA to Reduce Staff by Nearly 30K

Wednesday, July 09, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it's on pace to reduce total VA staff by nearly 30,000 employees by the end of fiscal year 2025, eliminating the need for a large-scale reduction-in-force.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 08:32 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

Absolutely shameful. Reducing tens of thousands of VA staff will mean longer wait times, fewer services, and less support for the veterans who served and sacrificed for this country.

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-- Rep. Kelly Morrison (@kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social) Jul 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Our center had flourished. With staffing cuts that have occurred and are threatened morale is poor. The physical won't show signs of the change for awhile, but it is an aging structure that needs constant attention.

#1 | Posted by mattm at 2025-07-08 01:35 PM

From Rudyard Kipling's "Tommy" (1890):
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.
...
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
...
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes," when the drums begin to roll.
...
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, fall be'ind,"
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.
...
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 08:52 AM

Housing assistance for Veterans are also being cut

--------. This is how lies get out.

This is how democrats start just "saying" something and act like it's fact.

This is why Democrats are losing. People hear you say -------- like this and we know you are lying.

I guess I see the democrat line now. Get your voters hooked on benefits and whenever they threaten to vote for someone else, tell them those benefits are being taken, whether it's true or not.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-09 09:13 AM

Actually, Boaz, lies tend to get out and about because poorly informed moronics like you spread them.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 09:19 AM

#20 | Posted by boaz

Didn't you say medicaid cuts were also a lie?

You're an idiot, boaz. When that also turns out to be true, you'll continue carrying their water anyway.

Because you're an idiot.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 09:39 AM

Let Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman pay for veteran's care.

They get all the tax breaks and cause all the damage.

#6 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-07-09 09:49 AM

#23: How true.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-09 09:52 AM

Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
April 3, 2025

www.npr.org

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-09 09:56 AM

Under Biden-Harris Administration, Veteran Homelessness Drops to Lowest on Record
November 11, 2024

www.usich.gov

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-09 10:01 AM

It's kind of sad seeing people like boaz endlessly believe the people in this administration have the slightest care in the world for people like him. Completely ignoring the fact that they are viewed as expendable and merely sources of money and needs.

I get some people will think this and will actually profit from being a shameless sycophant...until they're disposed of as no longer being useful.

But people like Boaz don't profit at all from their sycophancy. At all.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 11:06 AM

As a vet who used the VA as his main medical resource, I mourn this abuse of veterans for the profit of those looting the treasury. They are also going after Medicaid and Medicaid and food stamps, so all at the bottom of the economic pyramid will be placed in danger of losing vital resources.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-10 07:36 AM

But it seems there won't be layoffs as people are leaving.

Veterans Affairs Department Expects To Lose 30,000 Workers By October
The agency said the exodus of employees has made a mass layoff unlikely.
www.huffpost.com

Why would your sources lie, then why didn't you catch your sources lies, Gaslighter?

I'll wait..

#7 | Posted by oneironaut

They aren't lying. You are.

"The Trump administration said Monday that it expects the Department of Veterans Affairs to lose nearly 30,000 employees by October due to a mix of resignations, early retirements and attrition amid a hiring freeze."

What part of "Hiring Freeze" is that hard for your tiny brain to understand?

If someone leaves, they aren't being replaced. Period. People leave jobs all the time, especially when Trump offers a huge bonus for early retirement. Now they aren't being replaced.

That's a workforce reduction.

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-10 11:06 AM

Biden was hiring like gang busters....
In 2023 there were 450,000 VA staff.
www.federaltimes.com

In Sept 2024 ...
Some 483,000 of the 2.31 million total civilian federal employees work for the Department of Veterans Affairs as of September 2024. This is 56.4% more people than the department staffed in 2010.
usafacts.org

#7 | Posted by oneironaut

You are such a moron.

It's almost as if you can't remember we have an aging veteran population that served in foreign wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for nearly 20 years.

Way more veterans who served overseas are getting older and needing more care than back in 2010.

Biden supported veterans and hired additional staff to take care of them.

Trump thinks their suckers and losers who deserve to suffer. If they wanted to be taken care of, they should have gotten half a billion dollars from mommy and daddy like Donald rather than serving their country in Republican President Bush's wars.

How stupid are you?

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-10 11:14 AM

It was only just a few years ago that Republicans were attacking Obama for problems at the VA. I guess Biden did such a great job fixing those problems that Republicans feel it is running so efficiently that they can cut staff.
Great job, Joe!

#14 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-11 09:54 AM

State Dept will be cutting personnel this week, too.

Link:

federalnewsnetwork.com

"All you federal workers! Work three times harder because we cut staff while JD Vance takes another vacation with Upsha! Heh? What flood?"
~Dysfunctional Trumpf junta

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-11 10:07 AM

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