The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will cut nearly 30,000 jobs, far fewer than planned.
On July 8, Jin10 Data reported that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated on Monday that the scale of layoffs for this fiscal year will be reduced by two-thirds from the initial target, with the number of layoffs being about 30,000 instead of 80,000. At the beginning of the Trump administration, the agency employed about 480,000 people and is expected to continue employing nearly 450,000 employees in the fiscal year ending in September. According to Trump's plan to reduce the size of the federal government, the agency originally planned to streamline the number of employees to just below 400,000. This proposal has drawn widespread condemnation from veterans' groups and Democrats.