Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are “fearful, paranoid, and demoralized” as plans loom to downsize the agency by cutting around 83,000 jobs but details remain vague, according to a report.
Proposals to shrink the workforce by 15 percent were first reported in March after a department memo set out an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. The move would require terminating tens of thousands of employees.
