The VA's chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.

Developing whole leaders who are prepared to serve wherever they're called. Just over 150 years ago, Christian sea captain John Alexis Edgren founded a small seminary to train Baptist pastors for ...

One little-known place is called the North Creek Conservation Area. It's a designated conservation area and is considered a true wildland. Throughout the twentieth century, the forests of the ...

The 1,400 workers laid off on Monday were all "bargaining-unit probationary employees" in "non-mission critical roles," including "DEI-related positions," the VA said in a statement. Responders ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Wednesday paused an effort to terminate hundreds of contracts after pressure from Democrat lawmakers, according to Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee ...

The pause affects hundreds of VA contracts that Secretary Doug Collins a day earlier described as simply consulting deals, whose cancellation would save $2 billion as the Trump administration ...

Some staff in the Pittsburgh area have been fired, KDKA-TV confirmed through the VA. Chris Hoffman has more. It's official: Joel Embiid 'medically unable to play and will miss the remainder of the ...

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat and the ranking member of the Senate VA committee expressed concerns ... in diversity and inclusion efforts—an area former President Donald Trump has ...

"We were taking in millions of dollars in contracts to create things like PowerPoint slides and meeting minutes," VA Secretary Doug Collins said on Tuesday. "Millions of dollars in contracts for ...

That adds to about 1,000 employees laid off in the first round of VA firings on Feb. 13. While an exact number of area layoffs is difficult to nail down, the firings have already reached multiple ...

(VA) Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect a change in position by Veterans Affairs leadership. Veterans Affairs leaders this week touted $2 billion in savings for department ...