Washington veteran family says nationwide VA layoffs have already hurt their quality of care

Congressman Adam Smith, D-WA, is working to draw attention to these job cuts he calls “harmful.”

SEATTLE — So far, 2,400 people have been fired from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and KING 5 has learned that 14 of those people were fired from the Puget Sound VA Medical Center.

Now, Washington state leaders are pushing back to defend the care of our country’s defenders, defenders like U.S. Marine Andrew Stevens from Seattle. He got cancer from toxic chemicals he was exposed to overseas, and last year, his chemo caused his lungs to fail.  Even though he was primarily a patient of the VA in

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