
President Donald Trump once pledged that his administration would 'take care of our brave men and women in uniform.' But a new analysis shows that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) all but abandoned thousands of vacant healthcare posts instead of filling them.
Internal records reviewed by The New York Times reveal that the VA chose not to hire replacements for about 14,400 unfilled medical roles, including doctors, nurses, and other specialists, even as retirements and resignations mounted.