The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in contract cuts after an uproar that critical veterans health services were harmed, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.

Federal workers, union leaders and elected officials gathered for a rally to voice concerns about employment cuts for workers providing health care to veterans.

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,

More than 1,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs were fired amid the Trump administration's broad layoffs last week.

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.

Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) on Monday after she met with federal workers who felt the ax from President Trump’s billionaire right-hand man.

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.

After Elon Musk demanded that federal workers detail their work accomplishments via email, VA employees who contacted BI strongly opposed the effort.

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.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Reuters’s sources were “wrong,” that Trump had signed off on the idea, that DOGE and OPM had given the White House advance notice of the email’s release, and that the “White House was not caught off guard.”

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.