{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-democratic-veterans-raise-alarm-after-internal-documents-reveal-trump", "Deluzio, Democratic Veterans Raise Alarm After Internal Documents Reveal Trump VA\u2019s Plan to Slash Healthcare Jobs", "2025-12-18", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Christopher R. Deluzio", "D000530", "deluzio.house.gov", "deluzio", "https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Co-Chair of the Democratic Veterans Caucus and Iraq War veteran Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) was joined by his fellow Co-Chair and veteran Pat Ryan (NY-18) and other members of the Democratic Veterans Caucus to raise the alarm on the Trump Administration VA\u2019s efforts to cut around 35,000 healthcare jobs at the VA. This will hurt veterans\u2019 healthcare, likely drive up wait times, and force veterans into less accountable, more expensive, and worse healthcare with private providers who lack veterans\u2019 expertise. The Democratic members of Congress attending the event included Representatives Seth Moulton (MA-6), Mike Thompson (CA-4), Chrissy Houlahan (PA-6), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Bobby Scott (GA- and Eugene Vindman (VA-7).\n\nAt an event at the U.S. Capitol today, the group of Democratic veterans shared information from recently obtained internal VA documents that reveal the regional breakdown of job cuts at VA Medical Centers across the country. Congressman Deluzio also shared takeaways from internal Pittsburgh VA materials that specifically show that the VA serving his region in Western Pennsylvania plans to cut 481 jobs under the Trump Administration\u2019s plan.\n\n\u201cI believe in the sacred promise that those who sign up and serve our country will have a VA that is able to deliver on the promise of care that veterans earned,\u201d said Congressman Deluzio. \u201cNow, internal documents are showing that the Trump Administration VA is cutting around 35,000 VA healthcare jobs across the country, and just under 500 jobs in VA Pittsburgh. This includes clinical healthcare roles like doctors and nurses and will of course hurt veterans\u2019 care. This effort to gut healthcare jobs and sell off the VA is a betrayal. The Democratic Veterans Caucus came together today to raise the alarm to urge Secretary Collins to back off from these dangerous job cuts. In Pennsylvania, people\u2014especially veterans\u2014are getting fired up about this dumb plan, and I\u2019m going to keep fighting to get my fellow veterans the care they\u2019ve earned.\u201d\n\nCongressman Deluzio is a fighter for his fellow veterans and a fully staffed and funded VA. He previously took on the Trump Administration VA for stalling cancer trials and hurting veterans\u2019 healthcare, and has written several opinion pieces in The Hill and Military.com on the Washington GOP\u2019s effort to sell off and privatize VA healthcare.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-democratic-veterans-raise-alarm-after-internal-documents-reveal-trump"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6188409645110369, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}