83,000 VA Employees Slated to Be Fired This Year by Musk's DOGE, Memo Says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "And from my position as chairman, I will continue to ask questions and keep a close eye on how, or if, this plan evolves."
51% : The "reduction in force," as the layoffs are formally called, is being planned as part of Trump's February executive order requiring agencies to work with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and subsequent guidance from the White House offices in charge of budgets and personnel directing agencies to prepare for large-scale layoffs.
43% : Next: Trump's Orders Curbing Government Spending Dwindle Attendance at Air Force Conference "VA, in partnership with our DOGE leads, will move out aggressively, while taking a pragmatic and disciplined approach to identify and eliminate waste, reduce management and bureaucracy, reduce footprint, and increase workforce efficiency," Syrek wrote in the memo, referring to the Elon Musk-led White House office that has, in Musk's words, been taking a "chain saw" to the federal government.
35% : If implemented, the layoffs would reverse the extensive hiring the Biden administration undertook to implement that PACT Act.
22% : Veterans advocates have previously warned the Trump administration not to reverse the progress on PACT Act implementation as it pursues budget cuts.

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