The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin mass layoffs at the politically sensitive agency as early as June, according to a memo.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin mass layoffs as early as June, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters, as President Donald Trump's campaign to sharply cut the federal government works its way through a highly politically sensitive agency.

The Trump administration is planning to cut tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.

The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization in August to “resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin mass layoffs as early as June, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters, as President Donald Trump's campaign to sharply cut the federal government works its way through a highly politically sensitive agency.

The Veterans Administration (VA) is planning for mass layoffs that will start in June, according to Reuters, which reviewed an internal government memo. The March 6 memo instructs the VA's human resources department to review agency operations by June.