Since the Department of Veteran Affairs is finished 2 trillion dollars, some of the negations that the agency may have medical care and other benefits began to reverse.
“We were taking millions of dollars to create things like PowerPoint slides and meeting minutes,” VA Secretary said Doug Collins on Tuesday. “Millions of dollars” for coaching and training. “
“Don’t feed the line of what DC wants to sell,” he added. “We are returning to veteran health, we are returning the benefits of veterans. Do not let the media who want unnamed sources, senators and home members, and the media that we want to perpetuate. We are looking after the veterans.”
A sign marks Washington, DC, February 20, 2025, the Department of Veterans.
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But hundreds of contracts established for cancellations had legal technical inspections in VA facilities, including CT scanners, MRI machines and tooth X-ray units.
Without annual inspection, some of them do the agency’s money preservation contractors, VA staff cannot use equipment.
“We have a very good deal for them,” said a contractor with multi-agency recruits, they initially abandoned several, and then turned on Wednesday evenings. “They can’t afford to do at home.”
Cancellation of contracts will be “100% impact,” A VA official said ABC News. “If (machines) is served or part of a part, they must also be inspected.”
He asked for ABC news on Tuesday.
“We are not beneficial or service to veterans or va beneficiaries, and will not affect va Healthcare, beneficiaries or beneficiaries,” spokesman. “We will always take care of veteran guards.”
Some of the contracts marked on Monday to finish employees and workplaces provide benefit services for thousands of employees and their families. Others managed to supervise dangerous waste, they carried out safety inspections in Medical VA facilities, according to the records of agency that support cancer programs and burial services.
Doug Collin, President Donald Trumpen was a secretary of the Department of Veterans, in the confirmation of the confirmation of the Commission of the Committee of the Senate Veterans Committee, the building of the Senate office, 2025, in Washington, DC
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Some of the contracts marked on Monday to finish employees and workplaces provide benefit services for thousands of employees and their families. Others focused on va medical facilities to dispose of hazardous waste and safety inspections.
Many of these contracts are labeled as advisory variation, a strange category of federal contracts in the Government’s Department of Efficiency After going aggressively As part of an effort to waste government expenditure.
“Everyone can agree that waste is probably fat and can be very well fraud”, Arthur Mabbett, veteran and unmarried director of Mabbett veterans & Dozens of government contractors contracted by dozens of va and other agencies told ABC news.
“Instead of doing it in a fashion, this is a better chaos, which is doing right now, it would be a better view,” said Mabbett, who does not have his own stop orders except for Wednesday evenings.
Some of these works are working with VA facilities to ensure that expansion and renovation projects meet the federal environmental law.
Richard Blumenthal Sen., D-Conn. To cancel Collins’s previous movement contracts on Tuesday, many of these contracts give “critical and correct services” veterans.
“These services violently ignorant is a realistic promise of veteran care and benefits to Collins”, “Blumenthal said in a statement.” Do not make mistakes. That is, it is just a cost cut that will harm veterans and taxpayers. “
Richard Richard Blumenthal Pete Hegseth, President-Elected Donald Trump’s candidate for Secretary Defense, during the time of the Armed Services Committee of Senate, Washington, DC, 1425.
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Agency managers to start hundreds of contracts for employees at the end of Monday, they made a few stops that afternoon.
Already, some of these stop commands have been reserved – one of the DOGE-LED efforts on the federal government slowed or partially reversed Leaders of various agencies.
“I like what they’re doing, I think they made a mistake, and I think they need to fix it,” A contractor said about the ABC news about the general effort. “If it is done fast, I will be happy. And if it takes three or four months, I will not be.”
VA has already gone through two round dismissals: 1,000 employees affected and the latter announced this week 1,400 critical mission “, depending on the statement of the agency.
Some of these finished employees were asked to return to work days later, the staff said the news ABC.
Other streets can be on the horizon. On Wednesday, the Trump Administration directed the agency to start preparing for “large-scale” and to prepare rearrangements and submit plans for the management of the budget office, according to a notice obtained by ABC News.
-BC News “Sorin Kim and Nathan Luna helped this report.
