WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior member and former chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, joined Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and 36 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in a letter (https://www.murray.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-12-19-Letter-to-SecVA-re-Vacancy-Cuts.pdf) demanding answers about the Trump administration's plans to eliminate as many as 35,000 jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This follows recent reporting (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/13/va-veterans-affairs-job-cuts-trump/) from...