#47 President Donald Trump

Lerxst1992 · January 24

shecky said:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is exempting more than 300,000 health care positions from a governmentwide hiring freeze.
VA doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical officers are among the dozens of occupations excluded from the hiring freeze.
Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter, in a memo to department leaders, stated Veterans Health Administration positions “critical to delivering care to veterans” are exempt from the freeze, under the category of public safety.
Military Times first reported on the memo before its public release on Thursday. The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of VHA’s approximately 400,000-employee workforce.
Multiple individuals, however, have told Federal News Network they have had final job offers rescinded for VA health care positions since Trump ordered the hiring freeze, and are not sure if the department will reverse course after issuing the memo.
Another memo sent by the leadership of one VA medical center, obtained by Federal News Network, said human resources will “immediately take actions to contact hires in these occupations who had job offers rescinded.”
“HR will also work to re-initiate postings and move forward on any other hiring actions for occupations which are now exempt,” the memo states.
One job applicant said her final job offer for a nurse position was rescinded by the VA on Wednesday, but was reinstated on Thursday.
“[They] told me that they would be able to hire me and keep my start date,” the individual said. “It’s been an emotional couple of days, but it looks like everything is working out. But the HR reps are definitely working overtime.”
President Donald Trump, in an executive order signed Monday, included several exemptions, including one for veterans’ benefits.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, VA will always do what is necessary to provide America’s veterans with the benefits and services they have earned,” VA Director of Media Affairs Morgan Ackley said in a statement Thursday. “The targeted hiring-freeze exemptions announced today underscore that fact.”
The VA made its health care workforce exempt from the first Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.
But former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the VA, didn’t make an explicit assurance to lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that the department would grant those same carveouts this time around.
“President Trump, in this executive order, is to get an assessment on where we are with our employees. It is not to take away from anything that is currently there,” Collins said Tuesday. “We may not, at this point, bring in a new person tomorrow, unless needed, but this is where we’re at.”
Members of the Senate VA Committee raised concerns about the hiring freeze at Tuesday’s hiring and whether the Trump administration would pursue cuts to the VA’s workforce.
The committee advanced Collins’ nomination in an 18-1 vote on Thursday. Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he would support Collins’ nomination, but added he has “really intense concerns” about the hiring freeze.
“Whatever the effects on other departments or agencies, all of you know how dire the need is for the doctors, the nurses, the attendants — everyone involved in the VA health care system,” Blumenthal said. “There’s openings now, they need to be filled — particularly for mental health care. Delaying these medical appointments and benefits is in some cases denial of those benefits because health is such an urgent need for many of our veterans, particularly our older veterans.”
The VA memo states all jobs not exempt from the hiring freeze must be pulled from USAJobs.gov and other websites no later than Jan. 21. at 5 p.m.
As of Thursday afternoon, the VA advertised 139 vacant positions on USAJobs.gov. The VA, however, reported more than 40,000 vacancies at the end of 2024.
House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) joined House Democrats in asking the department’s leadership for more details about the hiring freeze’s impact on its workforce, and whether it would ask the Office of Personnel Management for more exemptions.
“No one at the White House even stopped to consider that freezing hiring for veterans’ health care providers or veterans claims processers might be a bad idea,” Takano said in a statement Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the House VA Committee said Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) “fully supports the Trump administration’s exemptions for the VA hiring freeze to ensure that health care services are not impacted for veterans.”
Copyright © 2025 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

As hopefully republicans know, there are many administrative procedures needed in order to deliver timely healthcare

so you claim potentially cutting 100,000 VA jobs will not slow down healthcare to veterans?

shecky · January 24

tbergs said:

shecky said:

tbergs said:

So much efficiency these last 4 days 🙄

Actually, only three full days so far (Inauguration Day doesn't count - President Trump was kind of busy... getting sworn in and all).
And he is following through with one more of his promises - to cut the gigantic amount of waste in the Federal government.
Trump believes there are way more Federal employees then we actually need, at a great expense to the American taxpayer.
Until his administration can complete studies to determine exactly how many Federal employees we need, he has enacted a government-wide hiring freeze. Makes sense, right?
When it was brought to his attention that the V.A. should have exemptions on the hiring freeze, Trump ordered it done.

Efficiency is throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks? Huh, interesting observation. A better option would be having a plan and fully assessing what you're putting out knowing the impacts, but sure, keep supporting anything this Admin does. I can tell you that the amount of wasted time just my organization has spent the last few days determining how these EOs impact us and what we need to do has been a lot of time, energy and money out the window. Extrapolating that out to the whole country, I can't imagine how much this is going to cost us all. Efficiency is an oxymoron with these people.

Thank you for your comments.

Yes, as promised, President Trump has wasted no time in signing many executive orders since he has returned to the White House.
These EOs were studied and planned over the previous months, and even years in some cases, by Trump and his advisors.

As far as Trump's intention to cut wasteful spending in the Federal government, specifically regarding the huge number of Federal employees that are possibly superfluous, it only makes sense to put a freeze on hiring new employees until they can attain exact current facts and figures on the issue. You don't expect the Trump administration to rely on old information from the previous administration, do you?

Liken it to waking up to a huge flood of water on your kitchen floor.
You're not yet sure what the exact cause is, but you know something is broken and you need to fix it.
The first logical step is to turn off the water.

Gern Blansten · January 24

Gern Blansten · January 24

Love this thread...

Bentleyspop · January 24

shecky · January 24

DE4173 said:

Thank you for sharing this document from the IACP and the FOP.

My first statement is that I am a solid supporter of law enforcement, and have been my entire life. That is how I was raised.

This document you provided states that both organizations "are deeply discouraged by the recent pardons and commutations granted by both the Biden and Trump Administrations to individuals convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers".

Though it is not stated, I must presume the case they are referring to, in regards to President Trump, must be the J6 incident.

Quite honestly, I still am not knowledgeable enough about the subject to comment intelligently.
There has been much false information released on this subject and I am still searching for the complete truth.

For example, as recently as last week, I heard a politician talk about the number of Capitol Police Officers that were killed that day.
The fact is, no Capitol Police Officers were killed that day. Yes, grossly unacceptable violence against Police Officers did ocurr.

The only person that was killed at the Capitol that day was an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

Obviously, anyone committing violence or assault against a Police Officer must be arrested, charged and if found guity charged accordingly.
I personally still do not know the names of those arrested and charged and convicted for committing violence against Capitol Police that day, nor what the sentences they received were.
Hopefully, the entire truth is out there and I intend on researching it further.
I'm also confident the the Trump administration will be looking into the case as well.

shecky · January 24

Lerxst1992 said:

shecky said:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is exempting more than 300,000 health care positions from a governmentwide hiring freeze.
VA doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical officers are among the dozens of occupations excluded from the hiring freeze.
Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter, in a memo to department leaders, stated Veterans Health Administration positions “critical to delivering care to veterans” are exempt from the freeze, under the category of public safety.
Military Times first reported on the memo before its public release on Thursday. The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of VHA’s approximately 400,000-employee workforce.
Multiple individuals, however, have told Federal News Network they have had final job offers rescinded for VA health care positions since Trump ordered the hiring freeze, and are not sure if the department will reverse course after issuing the memo.
Another memo sent by the leadership of one VA medical center, obtained by Federal News Network, said human resources will “immediately take actions to contact hires in these occupations who had job offers rescinded.”
“HR will also work to re-initiate postings and move forward on any other hiring actions for occupations which are now exempt,” the memo states.
One job applicant said her final job offer for a nurse position was rescinded by the VA on Wednesday, but was reinstated on Thursday.
“[They] told me that they would be able to hire me and keep my start date,” the individual said. “It’s been an emotional couple of days, but it looks like everything is working out. But the HR reps are definitely working overtime.”
President Donald Trump, in an executive order signed Monday, included several exemptions, including one for veterans’ benefits.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, VA will always do what is necessary to provide America’s veterans with the benefits and services they have earned,” VA Director of Media Affairs Morgan Ackley said in a statement Thursday. “The targeted hiring-freeze exemptions announced today underscore that fact.”
The VA made its health care workforce exempt from the first Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.
But former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the VA, didn’t make an explicit assurance to lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that the department would grant those same carveouts this time around.
“President Trump, in this executive order, is to get an assessment on where we are with our employees. It is not to take away from anything that is currently there,” Collins said Tuesday. “We may not, at this point, bring in a new person tomorrow, unless needed, but this is where we’re at.”
Members of the Senate VA Committee raised concerns about the hiring freeze at Tuesday’s hiring and whether the Trump administration would pursue cuts to the VA’s workforce.
The committee advanced Collins’ nomination in an 18-1 vote on Thursday. Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he would support Collins’ nomination, but added he has “really intense concerns” about the hiring freeze.
“Whatever the effects on other departments or agencies, all of you know how dire the need is for the doctors, the nurses, the attendants — everyone involved in the VA health care system,” Blumenthal said. “There’s openings now, they need to be filled — particularly for mental health care. Delaying these medical appointments and benefits is in some cases denial of those benefits because health is such an urgent need for many of our veterans, particularly our older veterans.”
The VA memo states all jobs not exempt from the hiring freeze must be pulled from USAJobs.gov and other websites no later than Jan. 21. at 5 p.m.
As of Thursday afternoon, the VA advertised 139 vacant positions on USAJobs.gov. The VA, however, reported more than 40,000 vacancies at the end of 2024.
House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) joined House Democrats in asking the department’s leadership for more details about the hiring freeze’s impact on its workforce, and whether it would ask the Office of Personnel Management for more exemptions.
“No one at the White House even stopped to consider that freezing hiring for veterans’ health care providers or veterans claims processers might be a bad idea,” Takano said in a statement Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the House VA Committee said Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) “fully supports the Trump administration’s exemptions for the VA hiring freeze to ensure that health care services are not impacted for veterans.”
Copyright © 2025 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

As hopefully republicans know, there are many administrative procedures needed in order to deliver timely healthcare

so you claim potentially cutting 100,000 VA jobs will not slow down healthcare to veterans?

Thank you for your comments.

I'm not sure I understand your interpretation of the article I posted.
The way I read it, there were approximately 400,000 V.A. employee positions that were going to have a hiring freeze applied to them.
Those employees were not being fired.
It just means that no new employees, for the time being, could be hired to fill any of those positions that may currently be vacant.

So, upon further discussion, the V.A. and the Trump Administration decided that only 100,000 V.A. employee positions would be under the temporary hiring freeze, not all 400,000 positions.
Again, none of those 100,000 employees are be fired at this time.

That's what the Trump Administration must study and, for all we know, they may determine that, instead of lessening the number of V.A. employees needed, they could potentially increase the number of employees needed.

We'll have to wait and see.

Gern Blansten · January 24

lol...he is so fucking stupid

tbergs · January 24

shecky said:

DE4173 said:

Thank you for sharing this document from the IACP and the FOP.

My first statement is that I am a solid supporter of law enforcement, and have been my entire life. That is how I was raised.

This document you provided states that both organizations "are deeply discouraged by the recent pardons and commutations granted by both the Biden and Trump Administrations to individuals convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers".

Though it is not stated, I must presume the case they are referring to, in regards to President Trump, must be the J6 incident.

Quite honestly, I still am not knowledgeable enough about the subject to comment intelligently.
There has been much false information released on this subject and I am still searching for the complete truth.

For example, as recently as last week, I heard a politician talk about the number of Capitol Police Officers that were killed that day.
The fact is, no Capitol Police Officers were killed that day. Yes, grossly unacceptable violence against Police Officers did ocurr.

The only person that was killed at the Capitol that day was an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

Obviously, anyone committing violence or assault against a Police Officer must be arrested, charged and if found guity charged accordingly.
I personally still do not know the names of those arrested and charged and convicted for committing violence against Capitol Police that day, nor what the sentences they received were.
Hopefully, the entire truth is out there and I intend on researching it further.
I'm also confident the the Trump administration will be looking into the case as well.

🤪 Nice deflection. It's like a chatGPT response.

And FYI, no one will be looking into any case, the pardons are the end. Trump is a pile of shit. Even the IACP-FOP deflect by combining the Biden pardon of one man who served decades in prison already and the Trump pardons of over a 1,000 no matter how violent their actions or amount of time served.

You can't even acknowledge that, but continue the sycophant posts of "accomplishments".

Bentleyspop · January 24

Kat · January 24

I'm currently unable to verify the posted photo of 47 with his parents and what? That's a Klan symbol on their clothes? We're going to remove the photo for now. Thank you.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-father-kkk-1927/

nicknyr15 · January 24

Kat said:

I'm currently unable to verify the posted photo of 47 with his parents and what? That's a Klan symbol on their clothes? We're going to remove the photo for now. Thank you.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-father-kkk-1927/

It’s fake.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-trumps-parents-photoshopped-wearing-kkk-robes-idUSKBN23J2A7/

shecky · January 24

Well, that was interesting...

Gern Blansten · January 24

lol...of course it's fake...there's all kinds of fake shit posted here

Kat · January 24

nicknyr15 said:

Kat said:

I'm currently unable to verify the posted photo of 47 with his parents and what? That's a Klan symbol on their clothes? We're going to remove the photo for now. Thank you.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-father-kkk-1927/

It’s fake.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-trumps-parents-photoshopped-wearing-kkk-robes-idUSKBN23J2A7/

It looks like that is the case.

The wiki on Fred Trump also reports "In 1927, Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration; there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization."
I can't help think that the company we keep is very important. Why go to a Klan demonstration?

nicknyr15 · January 24

Gern Blansten said:

lol...of course it's fake...there's all kinds of fake shit posted here

Seemed like you posted it as real. Apologies if you didn’t. But like you said, there’s enough unverified fake shit posted here regularly

Gern Blansten · January 24

nicknyr15 said:

Gern Blansten said:

lol...of course it's fake...there's all kinds of fake shit posted here

Seemed like you posted it as real. Apologies if you didn’t. But like you said, there’s enough unverified fake shit posted here regularly

I don't mean to cross a line but that meme I posted with him drawing a "Kat" is fake too...

And fuck no...of course it isn't real...even trump couldn't dance his fat orange ass away from that one

To me, posting shit like that is equal to the shit the cultist posters put on here and act like it's real.

Bentleyspop · January 24

Kat said:

nicknyr15 said:

Kat said:

I'm currently unable to verify the posted photo of 47 with his parents and what? That's a Klan symbol on their clothes? We're going to remove the photo for now. Thank you.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-father-kkk-1927/

It’s fake.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-trumps-parents-photoshopped-wearing-kkk-robes-idUSKBN23J2A7/

It looks like that is the case.

The wiki on Fred Trump also reports "In 1927, Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration; there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization."
I can't help think that the company we keep is very important. Why go to a Klan demonstration?

Exactly

Just like voting for a known racist xenophobe

battle1 · January 24

Its all pretty embarrassing.

Lerxst1992 · January 24

shecky said:

Lerxst1992 said:

shecky said:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is exempting more than 300,000 health care positions from a governmentwide hiring freeze.
VA doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical officers are among the dozens of occupations excluded from the hiring freeze.
Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter, in a memo to department leaders, stated Veterans Health Administration positions “critical to delivering care to veterans” are exempt from the freeze, under the category of public safety.
Military Times first reported on the memo before its public release on Thursday. The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of VHA’s approximately 400,000-employee workforce.
Multiple individuals, however, have told Federal News Network they have had final job offers rescinded for VA health care positions since Trump ordered the hiring freeze, and are not sure if the department will reverse course after issuing the memo.
Another memo sent by the leadership of one VA medical center, obtained by Federal News Network, said human resources will “immediately take actions to contact hires in these occupations who had job offers rescinded.”
“HR will also work to re-initiate postings and move forward on any other hiring actions for occupations which are now exempt,” the memo states.
One job applicant said her final job offer for a nurse position was rescinded by the VA on Wednesday, but was reinstated on Thursday.
“[They] told me that they would be able to hire me and keep my start date,” the individual said. “It’s been an emotional couple of days, but it looks like everything is working out. But the HR reps are definitely working overtime.”
President Donald Trump, in an executive order signed Monday, included several exemptions, including one for veterans’ benefits.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, VA will always do what is necessary to provide America’s veterans with the benefits and services they have earned,” VA Director of Media Affairs Morgan Ackley said in a statement Thursday. “The targeted hiring-freeze exemptions announced today underscore that fact.”
The VA made its health care workforce exempt from the first Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.
But former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the VA, didn’t make an explicit assurance to lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that the department would grant those same carveouts this time around.
“President Trump, in this executive order, is to get an assessment on where we are with our employees. It is not to take away from anything that is currently there,” Collins said Tuesday. “We may not, at this point, bring in a new person tomorrow, unless needed, but this is where we’re at.”
Members of the Senate VA Committee raised concerns about the hiring freeze at Tuesday’s hiring and whether the Trump administration would pursue cuts to the VA’s workforce.
The committee advanced Collins’ nomination in an 18-1 vote on Thursday. Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he would support Collins’ nomination, but added he has “really intense concerns” about the hiring freeze.
“Whatever the effects on other departments or agencies, all of you know how dire the need is for the doctors, the nurses, the attendants — everyone involved in the VA health care system,” Blumenthal said. “There’s openings now, they need to be filled — particularly for mental health care. Delaying these medical appointments and benefits is in some cases denial of those benefits because health is such an urgent need for many of our veterans, particularly our older veterans.”
The VA memo states all jobs not exempt from the hiring freeze must be pulled from USAJobs.gov and other websites no later than Jan. 21. at 5 p.m.
As of Thursday afternoon, the VA advertised 139 vacant positions on USAJobs.gov. The VA, however, reported more than 40,000 vacancies at the end of 2024.
House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) joined House Democrats in asking the department’s leadership for more details about the hiring freeze’s impact on its workforce, and whether it would ask the Office of Personnel Management for more exemptions.
“No one at the White House even stopped to consider that freezing hiring for veterans’ health care providers or veterans claims processers might be a bad idea,” Takano said in a statement Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the House VA Committee said Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) “fully supports the Trump administration’s exemptions for the VA hiring freeze to ensure that health care services are not impacted for veterans.”
Copyright © 2025 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

As hopefully republicans know, there are many administrative procedures needed in order to deliver timely healthcare

so you claim potentially cutting 100,000 VA jobs will not slow down healthcare to veterans?

Thank you for your comments.

I'm not sure I understand your interpretation of the article I posted.
The way I read it, there were approximately 400,000 V.A. employee positions that were going to have a hiring freeze applied to them.
Those employees were not being fired.
It just means that no new employees, for the time being, could be hired to fill any of those positions that may currently be vacant.

So, upon further discussion, the V.A. and the Trump Administration decided that only 100,000 V.A. employee positions would be under the temporary hiring freeze, not all 400,000 positions.
Again, none of those 100,000 employees are be fired at this time.

That's what the Trump Administration must study and, for all we know, they may determine that, instead of lessening the number of V.A. employees needed, they could potentially increase the number of employees needed.

We'll have to wait and see.

Right, and you misunderstood my comment.

100,000 jobs ARE SUBJECT TO A HIRING FREEZE. Per the attached , VA turnover is roughly ten percent per year. Therefore, we could see roughly TEN THOUSAND VACANT JOBS PER YEAR.

If you don’t believe that will impact healthcare provided to vets, you need to think about this better.

https://www.va.gov/EMPLOYEE/docs/Section-505-Annual-Report-2023.pdf

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