Cutting Jobs at the VA Won’t Solve Anything
Cutting Jobs at the VA Won’t Solve Anything Is the solution to the VA’s staffing crisis simply “stop hiring”? I don’t think so. Brian Bengs Dec 18 Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world. A Veteran doesn’t have that problem. — Ronald Reagan Back in August, I wrote a Substack article about the then-recent move from the Trump Administration to cut the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by 30,000 employees. In that article, I talked about how the VA had been dramatically improving in recent years and the various problems that cutting the VA’s workforce would cause or make worse. In a monkey’s paw turn of fate, it turns out my concerns for the VA’s crippled workforce lacking the capacity to help veterans have been addressed! No, VA Secretary Douglas Collins didn’t alleviate the staffing shortage, where literally every single VA facility in the country is understaffed . To this day, there still ...