“Medical professionals, crisis hotline responders, and claims processors are desperately needed to keep the VA running,” Embrich wrote in Rolling Stone. “Now, with hiring frozen…veterans will wait longer for care, disability claims will pile up, and crisis lines—lifelines for veterans on the brink—will be understaffed.”

Chonda Loder says she took the Trump administration's buyout offer because her job is no longer the "secure and family-friendly position that it used to be."

The mass firing of federal workers is now underway; it was ordered by the Trump administration in an attempt to cut down the deficit. Among the cuts were more than 1,000 employees from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Veterans Affairs dismissed over 1,000 employees as part of Trump's effort to reduce the size of the federal government and decrease spending.