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Home » Press Releases » U.S. Sen. Baldwin & colleagues: Push back on Trump administration’s claims that cutting 83,000 VA employees will have no impact on veterans’ care & benefits
“We will make sure the public knows the truth – that cutting back to 2019 staffing levels means firing over 18,000 nurses, ten percent of the VA police force, nearly 10,000 schedulers, and more than thirty percent of the Veterans Benefits Administration staff.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined her colleagues in blasting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary ...