{"id":2161,"date":"2025-03-26T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:24:40","slug":"trumps-va-cuts-could-threaten-mental-health-care-for-countless-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/trumps-va-cuts-could-threaten-mental-health-care-for-countless-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump's VA cuts could threaten mental health care for countless veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced it would cut roughly 72,000 workers, or about 15% of its agency, with the goal of returning its staffing to 2019 levels, when it had just under 400,000 employees. Karen Hua looks at what’s at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced it would cut roughly 72,000 workers, or about 15% of its agency, with the goal of returning its staffing to 2019 levels, when it had just under 400,000 employees. Karen Hua looks at what’s at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beijingcareer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}