Agency says it is on pace to reduce its total staff by nearly 30,000 employees by the end of this fiscal year through retirements, attrition and deferred resignations after previously saying it would need to cull 83,

The Department of Veterans Affairs will lose 30,000 employees through resignations and retirements by October 2025, eliminating the need for mass layoffs.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has abandoned plans for mass layoffs but still anticipates the exit of 30,000 employees by the end of the fiscal year.  Previous downsizing goals aimed to return the agency to 2019-level staffing of roughly 398,