Jobs & VA Staffing

2025 March

2025-03-05 Veteran Eric Rodriguez warned that Trump’s cut of 400,000 VA jobs brought the VA back to 2019 staffing levels.

2025 June

2025-06-13 A VA nurse explained during an interview, “there has been a long-time nursing staffing crisis…on top of that they are saying ‘not only are we not going to hire and fill those positions, we’re going to get rid of more staff”.

2025 August

2025-08-12 A VA healthcare audit cited severe staffing shortages on at least 139 medical campuses.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/08/13/watchdog-finds-50-increase-va-medical-center-jobs-severe-shortages.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/department-veterans-affairs-shortages-trump

https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/newsletters/2024/august/severe-shortages-of-doctors-and-nurses-have-persisted-for-a-decade-at-va-facilities-report-finds

2025 December

2025-12-15 Another 35,000 VA jobs were cut.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-veterans-affairs-agency-plans-health-care-job-cuts-wapo-reports-2025-12-13/

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/va-eyeing-35000-health-care-job-cuts-drawing-rebuke-from-veterans-group

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/13/va-veterans-affairs-job-cuts-trump/

https://dccc.org/jen-kiggans-silent-as-trumps-va-plans-to-eliminate-tens-of-thousands-of-jobs-reduce-veteran-care/