{"id":74454,"date":"2025-07-31T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/07\/31\/10000-va-employees-are-resigning-in-september-heres-the-list\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:04:57","slug":"10000-va-employees-are-resigning-in-september-heres-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/veterans\/2025\/07\/31\/10000-va-employees-are-resigning-in-september-heres-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 VA employees are resigning in September. Here\u2019s the list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This <\/i>article<\/i><\/a> first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline, \u201cExodus at VA: 10,000 employees are resigning in September. Here\u2019s the list.\u201d Subscribe to their <\/i>newsletter<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been six months since a now-infamous email<\/a> presented<\/a> millions of federal workers with a pivotal decision: They could reply \u201cresign\u201d to give up their job and receive full pay and benefits through the end of September. Or they could stay in their positions and hope they didn\u2019t get laid off in the ensuing chaotic months of the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps no agency was impacted more than the Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs by far the largest federal payroll outside of the military, with more than 467,000 employees providing health care and benefits to 9.1 million veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VA leaders said there was plenty of room for cuts without compromising care, but they insisted front-line health care providers such as doctors and nurses were too valuable to let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now, VA has not disclosed exactly which employees took the offer. But records obtained by The War Horse through Freedom of Information Act requests show that while human resources, information technology and other administrative jobs make up the bulk of the more than 10,000 deferred resignations, hundreds of employees who interact with patients, including nurses, claims assistants, therapists, pharmacists and psychologists, were also on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VA\u2019S DEFERRED RESIGNATIONS<\/p>\n


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Even without deferred resignations, front-line medical staff are leaving the Veterans Health Administration. Since the end of last September, VA has 2,000 fewer registered nurses and 750 fewer doctors, according to the latest VA workforce dashboard<\/a>. By comparison, during the same period the previous year, VA had added a net total<\/a> of 3,000 RNs and 200 doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n