Federal hiring is nearly frozen. For those who can hire, a new roadblock has emerged
Some federal agencies, like the Department of Veterans Affairs, are largely exempt from President Trump's hiring freeze. But ...
VA health researchers get 90-day extension, but mass layoffs still loom
The firings by Trump aide Elon Musk's DOGE disrupted health studies that were meant to follow patients over time, VA ...
As cuts and uncertainty hobble VA clinics, Wisconsin leaders increasingly divided over DOGE
Staff say the changes could lead to longer wait times for patients and more labor for an already-depleted team of shift ...
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Blumenthal introduces bill to help VA employees, veterans affected by layoffs
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has introduced legislation he said will protect veterans from past and future federal ...
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83,000 VA Employees Slated to Be Fired This Year by Musk's DOGE, Memo Says
If implemented, the layoffs would bring the department down to the level of employees it had before the PACT Act, the ...
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83,000 VA workers targeted for layoffs by August
The Department of Veterans Affairs will slash more than 80,000 jobs under a major restructuring plan that the agency intends ...
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Federal hiring is nearly frozen. For those who can hire, a new roadblock has emerged
The Trump administration is moving at lightning speed to shrink the federal government and freeze federal hiring. But some people are still getting jobs. Special exemptions laid out by the White ...