Stop VA Staffing Cuts

The VA lost more than 40,000 employees in fiscal 2025, including 3,000 nurses and 1,000 physicians, and staffing caps still slow rehiring for the 9.1 million veterans enrolled in VA care.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 25, 2026.

The Letter

Subject Stop VA Staffing Cuts

The Department of Veterans Affairs lost more than 40,000 employees in fiscal 2025, according to a January 2026 report by Democrats on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. Most of them, 88%, worked in the Veterans Health Administration. The department lost 3,000 registered nurses, 1,000 physicians, 700 social workers, and nearly 2,000 claims processors. After new hires, the net loss was close to 30,000, the department's first net loss of employees, the report found.

More than 9.1 million veterans are enrolled in VA health care. Even after the hiring freeze was lifted, each regional office must stay under a staffing cap, and field leaders report long delays in approvals to hire.

Please fund VA staffing in the next budget so the Veterans Health Administration can refill the clinical and claims jobs it lost.

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I'm calling to ask the Senator to fund VA staffing so the Veterans Health Administration can refill the jobs it lost.
The VA lost more than 40,000 employees in fiscal 2025, including 3,000 nurses and 1,000 physicians, according to a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee report.
Staffing caps are still slowing hiring even though the freeze was lifted.
I'm a constituent. Veterans earned this care. Please fund it.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

40,000+ VA employees lost in fiscal 2025, 88% of them in health care (Senate Veterans' Affairs Democrats' report) (source)
~30,000 Net loss of VA employees after new hires, the department's first net loss (source)
9.1 million Veterans enrolled in VA health care (source)

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