Y esterday I saw a video from VA Secretary Doug Collins (former member of Congress from Georgia) bragging about how they were cutting two billion dollars worth of what were clearl

The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans' health services, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.

After firing 1,000 VA probationary employees Feb.15, the VA terminated 1,400 more employees they called “non mission critical” on Feb. 24.

Service-disabled veteran entrepreneurs bear 89% of the claimed savings. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins claims this is just step one.

In his first public address to a veterans group, Doug Collins outlined plans to broaden VA benefits and cut back bureaucracy.

More than a half-dozen veterans service groups presented their legislative priorities at a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees and warned Congress that health care and other services that veterans rely on from the VA must be sustained and improved in a time of accelerated cost-cutting to government programs.

The VA has almost 450,000 employees, nearly 92% of whom work in health care and health administration and support services. It has roughly 40,000 probationary employees, most of whom were exempt from being fired because they serve in mission-critical positions, according to the VA.

I interviewed the VA Secretary Doug Collins last night and it was pretty clear he had a message for the roughly 18 million living veterans in this country. “We're not cutting critical health care. We're not cutting health care benefits,

More than 1,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs were fired amid the Trump administration's broad layoffs last week.

More than 2 million federal workers received an email over the weekend threatening firing if they can't justify their work performance by Monday night.

Veterans Affairs leaders dismissed more than 1,400 additional probationary employees on Monday evening, the second round of mass layoffs at the department this month. Monday’s dismissals included bargaining-unit employees who have served less than two years in their posts.

Doug Collins, the new secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, attends the Disabled American Veterans’ winter conference outside Washington, D.C.