Following the termination of more than 1,400 Department of Veterans Affairs employees on Monday, including some in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Democrats condemned the widespread firings. It's the second round of terminations at the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office last month,
The Wisconsin workers who lost their jobs were among 1,400 laid off by the Department of Veterans Affairs this week. Veterans were among those fired.
Milwaukee VA employees were first advised to comply with an Elon Musk directive to detail their work accomplishments, then were told it's not required.
More than 2 million federal workers received an email over the weekend threatening firing if they can't justify their work performance by Monday night.
More than 1,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs were fired amid the Trump administration's broad layoffs last week.
Paul Lawrence, the Trump administration's nominee for deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, pledged Wednesday to look into recent firings at the VA and ensure that veterans' health and benefits information is protected from incursions by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk was asked about the his email asking for federal employees to give five things they did last week or risk termination. The billionaire reiterated his claim that it was done t
Democratic Representative Marcy Kaptur has questioned Elon Musk 's loyalty to the United States due to the billionaire DOGE head holding citizenship for two other countries. Newsweek reached out to Musk via Tesla and Kaptur's office via phone for comment.
Republican senators vented their concerns about tech billionaire Elon Musk’s aggressive approach to freezing federal spending and cutting government jobs during a private meeting with White House
An email arrived in the inboxes of workers at Spokane's Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center and employees across the federal government on Saturday afternoon with a seemingly simple request from the Office of Personnel Management.