{"id":26704,"date":"2025-03-05T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=26704"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:54:34","slug":"sen-ossoff-on-trump-administrations-reported-plans-to-fire-over-80000-va-employees","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-on-trump-administrations-reported-plans-to-fire-over-80000-va-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff on Trump Administration\u2019s Reported Plans to Fire Over 80,000 VA Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff,&nbsp;Ranking&nbsp;Member&nbsp;of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, today released the following statement after The Associated Press&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;the Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire over 80,000 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Administration must immediately and publicly withdraw any proposal to gut the VA and imperil veterans\u2019 care and benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlready, the chaos, incompetence, and disruption are unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVeterans earned their benefits through selfless service. It\u2019s a contract, not a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff,&nbsp;Ranking&nbsp;Member&nbsp;of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, today released the following statement after The Associated Press&nbsp;reported&nbsp;the Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire over 80,000 employees. \u201cThe Administration must immediately and publicly withdraw any proposal to gut the VA and imperil veterans\u2019 care and benefits. \u201cAlready, the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26704","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26706,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26704\/revisions\/26706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}