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Over the past month, VA has cut 2,400 positions, and VA Secretary Doug Collins said this week the department plans to slash more than 70,000 jobs. The goal would reduce VA staffing to 2019 levels, three years before the historic PACT Act expanded benefits to more than a million veterans sickened by exposures to toxins.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has repeatedly promised that the quest to shrink the federal government will not harm veterans or their care.
“We’re going to make the department work better for the veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors,” Collins said this week.
But VA employees from across the country said the cuts and a climate of fear are already hurting veterans.
I’ve gotten into a couple arguments, but it’s like talking to a brick.
They really do live in a complete fantasy.
Yeah, it’s sad. Even worse when reality confronts their fantasy and they keep choosing fantasy.
It’s hard to come up with a good analogy. It’s kind of like someone watching a crocodile bite their leg off and then hobbling back to the same lagoon so they can get bit again. Then, instead of blaming themselves or the crocodile for the situation, they blame black people.