Before the end of the year, the Trump administration is planning to eliminate up to 35,000 healthcare jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, a chronically understaffed agency that has already lost tens of thousands of employees to the White House’s sweeping assault on the federal workforce.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the targeted positions—many of which are unfilled—include doctors, nurses, and support staff.
“This is outrageous,” the group wrote on social media. “It is abundantly clear that Republicans and the Trump administration want to strangle the VA until it all gets privatized.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said in a statement Sunday that “it is unacceptable that the US Department of Veterans Affairs plans to eliminate as many as 35,000 healthcare positions this month.”
“This is especially outrageous given the reality that VA facilities in Vermont and across the country already face severe staffing challenges,” said Sanders. “When someone puts their life on the line to defend this country in uniform, we in turn must provide them with the best quality healthcare available. These layoffs are unacceptable and must be reversed. We must expand the VA, not hollow it out. And I will do everything I can to make that happen.”
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