There were recent concerns that benefits for veterans could be impacted by lower staffing levels after VA confirmed more than 1,000 staff members were fired.

The workers sacked on Monday were all "bargaining-unit probationary employees" in "non-mission critical roles," according to the VA.

A former Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center employee, who wished to remain anonymous, recently shared her experience after being fired.

Like thousands of federal workers fired by the Trump administration, those who lost their jobs at Zablocki were all probationary employees.

The scope of the layoffs locally are still unknown, but the VA has announced more than 1,200 workers would be terminated over the past two weeks.

Federal employees at the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee were fired Monday as part of a Trump Administration push to reduce government spending.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said at least two former Veterans Crisis Line employees have told her office they are in the process of being rehired at the VA.

VA state Del. Joshua Cole made a Holocaust reference while criticizing DOGE; paraphrasing Niemöller: "Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew."

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday fired another 1,400 employees amid outcry over a lack of transparency from the agency after 1,000 workers were axed earlier this month. The VA

More than a half-dozen veterans service groups presented their legislative priorities at a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees and warned Congress that health care and other services that veterans rely on from the VA must be sustained and improved in a time of accelerated cost-cutting to government programs.