'These Are Human Beings': VA Fires 1,400 More Employees It Considers Nonessential The dismissals affect union workers who had served less than one or two years, depending on their jobs.
Veterans Won Big with the PACT Act. Now, Civilian Military Contractors Are Starting Their Own Campaign When the country goes to war, it isn’t only the military that pays the price.
Nominee for VA Deputy Role Questioned by Senate over Firings, Elon Musk Access to Veterans' Info Paul Lawrence served as the VA under secretary for benefits during the first Trump presidency.
Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted While controversy swirls around last week's mass firing of 1,000 Department of Veterans Affairs' employees, a far greater...
New Concerned Veterans for America Director to Lead Group's Effort to Expand Priorities The 14-year old group, affiliated with Americans for Prosperity, is seeking to expand its influence in a Republican majority...
VA Crisis Line Employees Among Those Fired Amid Federal Workforce Purge Of the 1,000 employees fired last week from the Department of Veterans Affairs, some were employees who had worked for the...
Trump Firings of Inspectors General Violated Federal Law, Pentagon and VA Watchdogs Say in New Lawsuit The IGs allege that Trump failed to notify Congress about the firings at least 30 days before they occurred and did not...
What's in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief? New OMB Director Russell Vought has contributed to two conservative playbooks that advocate for the revamping of veterans'...
Veterans Affairs Deems More Than 130 Occupations Ineligible for Trump's Deferred Resignation Plan Nurses had been among those who received the original offer, but their unions had discouraged them from accepting, saying an...
Canceled Appointments, Unexplained Mixups – Veterans Facing Challenges Getting VA Mental Health Care Veterans say they often can't get individual therapy appointments to accompany psychiatric medical care, and when they do...
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...
