Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists

Saturday, March 14, 2026

In January, the [Department of Veterans Affairs] had around 500 fewer psychologists and psychiatrists than it had at the same time last year, ProPublica found.

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NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff "at a breaking point" and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) Mar 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM

Comments

Donald Trump denies veterans mental health care because he is mentally ill.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-14 10:09 AM

He needed them to get elected again so he could kill the Trumpstein files.

He no longer needs them.

So they're suckers and losers in his mind.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-14 10:50 AM

*** VA Finding New Insidious Ways to Deny GI Bill to Thousands of Veterans ***

The head of the VA is a USAFR Colonel and Christian Chaplain.

Link: taskandpurpose.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-14 11:26 AM

Veterans are a cost center.
Cost centers get cuts.
That's just business.
This is what Republicans voted for.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-14 11:55 AM

i.imgflip.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-14 11:59 AM

With this warand no va, that's the least of it.

#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-14 07:19 PM

"Trump Fails".....at everything

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-14 10:03 PM

Is there any part of the American government Trump hasn't screwed up? Certainly one of the truest things anyone ever said about Trump is that he is, "objectively, a Russian asset".

#8 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-03-15 06:24 AM

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.

Rudyard Kipling, "Tommy"

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-03-16 02:34 PM

And Rudyard Kipling lost his only child-- myopic if I recall correctly-- in the name of Empire during the Great War.

static.standard.co.uk

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-16 02:42 PM

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