Ranking Member Takano Condemns VA Plan to Cut Thousands of Unfilled Healthcare Positions | The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

The Administration honoring veterans… not at all.

Trump really is the necrotising fasciitis of the body politic.

#USA #politics #Trump #VeteranAffairs

There is so much the government always hides from us because they do not want to take responsibility for the shit they sent us into throughout this countrie's history.

This would be a huge step forward. Which means it probably won't pass. The government does not want this to happen.

#veterans #unitedstates #health #veteranaffairs

https://www.military.com/daily-news/headlines/2025/11/13/bill-seeks-force-va-reveal-secret-list-of-toxic-exposure-illnesses.html

Bill Would Force VA to Reveal Secret List of Toxic Exposure Illnesses

A new bill would require the VA to disclose its secret list of toxic-exposure illnesses under consideration -- a move veterans say is long overdue.

Military.com

I'm addition to today's fun, fuck the VA man.

A doctor almost killed my bud by giving him meds and not listening when my bud said he was not feeling well. The doc said he was fine and even increased the dose.

It put him in the ICU.

Times like these are when you wish you could sue the shit out of the Veteran Affairs.

#va #veterans #veteranaffairs #military #medical

As if the VA needed -more- reasons to deny veterans care. 🤦🏿‍♂️

@flexghost

#Veterans #VeteranAffairs

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Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.

This is a post on what the VA does, how it's being destroyed (and the lives that will cost), and what we all can do about it (call your electeds, and yes, that very much includes every single republican, and give them hell, for they're very much complicit here)

#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings #VeteranAffairs

https://www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-department-of-veterans-affairs-gets-well-and-truly-fucked

The Department of Veterans Affairs Gets Well and Truly Fucked — The Haunt*

Sometime in the late 1980s when I was a teenager, I accompanied my dad to the mall. Dad had gotten a pair of un-torn, un-used tickets to Woodstock as a gift and he wanted to put them on display - so we went to an art store and picked out the mats, the frame, and so forth. The woman who helped us p

The Haunt*

"But Lennox noted, “The irony of saying ‘We’ve saved $98 million to help veterans’ by firing a veteran just kind of blows my mind.”

#USPolitics #VeteranAffairs #FiringsFederalEmployees

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veterans-affairs-cuts/

A Marine vet thought he found a 'home' working at the VA. Now he's one of 1,000 fired.

Andrew Lennox, who was terminated from the VA, noted the irony of the VA claiming it had fired some veterans to help veterans.

Task & Purpose