Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own
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The Department of Veterans Affairs no longer plans to fire tens of thousands of employees this year, but still expects to shed nearly 30,000 workers through various types of resignations and retirements, the department said Monday. The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March , to fire as many as 83,000 employees as part of the Trump administration's overarching goal to slash the size of the federal government -- plans that sparked fierce pushback from
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