(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Congressman Chris Deluzio spoke on Thursday alongside Democratic Veterans Caucus to make people aware of the VA Healthcare system’s 35,000 job cuts that are happening across the country. There were around 1,180 job cuts in VISN 4, which serves Pennsylvania, and 481 that were in the Pittsburgh VA system listed out in internal VA documents. These jobs cuts included the elimination of critical healthcare jobs like roles for doctors and nurses. According to Deluzio, “our country has a major health-care staffing shortage,” and “our veterans need and have earned fully funded and staffed VA hospitals and clinics. It’s simple. If our VA needs to hire more doctors, nurses, you name it, to meet the health care needs of our veterans, you ought to be hiring them, not slashing thier positions.”