ProPublica — VA Reporting

Nonprofit investigative newsroom — VA series · ProPublica; its VA tip and reporting effort is fronted by Eric Umansky, editor-at-large

ProPublica’s VA work runs as the series ‘Veterans’ Care at Risk’ — 14 stories since 2025 documenting staffing losses, rejected clinicians, and care setbacks inside VA hospitals, built from internal emails, data, and tips from VA staff and patients. Its /va address now routes to an open call for veterans and VA workers to report what they are seeing, updated July 10, 2026. Slow, documented, and hard for the department to wave off.

Why we carry them. When the question is what is happening inside VA facilities right now, this is the newsroom with the internal documents — and an open door for families to add theirs.

Start here — their essential work

• Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump (2026-03-12) — The series’ newest story: veterans in ongoing mental-health care keep losing their therapists as clinicians leave VA under the current administration.
• Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage (2025-10-29) — An executive order became a coverage obstacle for male veterans with breast cancer — a benefit fight decided by paperwork language, not medicine.
• Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals (2025-08-08) — Hundreds of doctors and nurses declined VA jobs or left, deepening hospital staffing shortages the department was already struggling to fill.
• Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health (2025-06-06) — The actual prompts behind the AI tool that flagged VA health contracts for cancellation — published so readers can judge the method themselves.
• DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts (2025-06-06) — An error-prone AI screen helped decide which VA contracts lived or died, including contracts tied to cancer research and nursing care.
• Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials” (2025-05-06) — VA’s own internal emails warned that budget and staff cuts put veterans’ care — including life-saving cancer trials — at risk.
• The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated” (2025-03-11) — The VA office charged with investigating disparities in veterans’ care was dismantled — the series’ opening account of oversight disappearing from inside.

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