The Department of Veterans Affairs says it’s on pace to slash its workforce by 30,000 total employees by the end of FY25 without needing to carry out a large-scale reduction, citing other factors like attrition and retirement.
The updated reduction estimate, shared in a release from the VA on Monday, is less than half of the number of employees VA leaders initially planned on cutting.
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In March, we reported that amid the Trump administration’s efforts to make cuts to the federal government, VA Secretary Doug Collins announced the department was looking at reducing its staff by about 15%. At the time, that translated to about 70,000 employees…