Orion Donovan-Smith

RT @EhrmWhatsUp: Plus-9 #EHRM 2026 Go-Lives per VA News: - Cincinnati VAMC (KY) - Chillicothe VAMC (OH) - Cincinnati VAMC (OH) - Dayton VA…

RT @nathan_h_b: I’d say one of the worst moves in recent franchise history but honestly how do you pick?

RT @alexmayer34: Jorge Polanco is the first @MLB player with a sacrifice bunt & eventual game-winning home run on OPENING DAY since Nellie…

Best M's news in a long, long time

Jeff Passan @JeffPassan

BREAKING: Catcher Cal Raleigh and the Seattle Mariners are finalizing a six-year, $105 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN. Deal starts this season and buys out three years of free agency. A huge deal to keep a franchise catcher in Seattle.

RT @davidfolkenflik: News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼 http…

RT @JessicaBRiedl: Informative article shows how DOGE is firing employees & teams seemingly at random. Like forcing VA hospitals to elimina…

This story can be republished under a Creative Commons license thanks to the support of @SpokesmanReview subscribers and donations from our community. We're the smallest paper in the country with a reporter in DC, yet my editors were quick to send me to Chicago for this story.

Orion Donovan Smith @orionds

I talked with several of the roughly 1,700 VA employees who were fired in February, supposedly to cut spending, and are now being paid not to work as court cases play out. They include an HVAC technician who likely saved taxpayers >$10 million. https://t.co/x1FhdHw8Ll

I talked with several of the roughly 1,700 VA employees who were fired in February, supposedly to cut spending, and are now being paid not to work as court cases play out. They include an HVAC technician who likely saved taxpayers >$10 million. https://t.co/x1FhdHw8Ll

RT @JeffPassan: When asked about the reason for the removal of the story on the @DeptofDefense website on Jackie Robinson's military servic…

Good reporting by @jheckmanWFED, who obtained documents showing the VA terminated contracts for at least six companies supporting the Oracle Health EHR rollout, at the same time the VA is accelerating that troubled program. https://t.co/nXQXnUQedF

RT @BaltimoreBanner: The house that Second Chance built — for its founder https://t.co/h8xpQfGd4W

RT @ajconwashington: My latest for the @ajc: A deep dive into campaign spending of U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, who after announcing his retire…

RT @LeoShane: Out now -- part 1 of our sit down with VA Sec Collins. He confirmed plans to trim back VA staffing to 2019 levels (dropping a…

RT @LeoShane: Just finished our first sit down interview with VA Sec Doug Collins where he confirmed the department is looking at significa…

Ken Kizer, who led a transformation of VA health care in the late ‘90s, told me that the department’s plan to cut >80k jobs is “back-asswards” and doing it while accelerating the Oracle EHR rollout is “lunacy.”

The Spokesman-Review @SpokesmanReview

The @DeptVetAffairs plans to cut more than 80,000 jobs in the next six months as part of the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically downsize the federal workforce, according to an internal memo sent to staff on Tuesday. // story by @orionds https://t.co/rGvPpuRUB8

RT @SpokesmanReview: After 18 workers at @SpokaneVA earlier agreed to take a buyout, another 12 workers were laid off Monday as part of th…

RT @TaraCopp: The @AP has obtained the full list of 875 contracts to be cut at the @DeptVetAffairs, lauded by DOGE and now paused for more…