Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin was remorseful on Thursday, promising to pay back parts of his taxpayer-funded travel to Europe last year, which included sightseeing with his wife.
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) called on Veterans Affairs Secretary David Sulkin to resign Wednesday over a new inspector general’s report that found Shulkin spent taxpayer funds on his wife’s travel to Europe last summer, and that his staff misled an ethics inquiry.
UKIP’s new leader has accused local councils of deliberately prioritising the housing of asylum seekers and illegal migrants, whilst leaving thousands of military veterans homeless, in his first public policy speech.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) argued against privatizing the VA, saying it would be “not just expensive. It’s a shirking of our responsibility as a nation. It’s a breaking of a promise to our veterans. And
Montana State Auditor Matt Rosendale joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about his bid for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Jon Tester.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. David Shulkin appeared on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss reforms made at the V.A. on his watch, the challenges that still remain, the state of health care reform for the private sector, and the emotional Medal of Honor ceremony for Vietnam War Army medic James McCloughan.
Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.
The Department of Veterans Affairs fired more than 500 employees and suspended nearly 200 for misconduct since President Trump’s inauguration in January, keeping true to campaign promises to clean up the agency.
Beginning the day after this Fourth of July, veterans with other-than-honorable (OTH) administrative discharges from military service — or what’s often called “bad paper” — can soon receive emergency mental health care from a VA emergency room, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin announced Tuesday.
President Donald Trump, in a room filled with veterans and veterans advocates, signed a law that will give the Veterans Affairs secretary more power to remove failing employees and protect whistleblowers. “Our veterans have fulfilled their duty to this nation
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin discussed with Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM on Thursday his efforts to reform that notoriously troubled agency.
A New Hampshire veteran says he almost operated on himself after the Department of Veterans’ Affairs reportedly declined to pay his medical expenses.
A new report by the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General has concluded that more than 100 veterans died while waiting for care at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (facility) hospital from October 2014 through August 2015.
Gabby Giffords’ gun control group Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) is urging opposition to a repeal of the gun ban for military veterans.
When Donald Trump selected David Shulkin as his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, some political supporters of the president were baffled by the president’s choice. Trump had decided to hand the reins to an Obama appointee despite campaigning for radical change.
The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to add new jobs available at the agency following its temporary exemption from President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze.
Congressman Phil Roe (R-TN), chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday regarding the VA Accountability First Act, which is being supported by fifteen major veteran’s service organizations. Roe penned
President Donald Trump released his budget blueprint on Thursday, an effort to prioritize safety and security for the American people while dramatically cutting other agencies considered sacred cows by the left.
Every Democrat joined every Republican in voting to confirm Dr. David Shulkin as the next man to run the Department of Veterans Affairs in a 100-0 vote.
On January 11, then-President-elect Donald J. Trump nominated David J. Shulkin, M.D., to be his administration’s first Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). At the time, Dr. Shulkin was serving as the agency’s Under Secretary for Health Administration. On February 1, the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs held a fast-tracked confirmation hearing for Dr. Shulkin. As an Obama appointee for his current position, Shulkin is expected to be confirmed in the general session of the Senate.
President-elect Donald J. Trump named Dr. David J. Shulkin as his nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs at his Wednesday press conference at Manhattan’s Trump Tower.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had been aware of, but did nothing about, the mental problems afflicting Esteban Santiago Ruiz before he attacked Florida’s Ft. Lauderdale international airport.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R.-Calif.) made bills focused on veterans’ care the first two votes Tuesday, immediately after the congressmen are sworn into office to begin the 115th session of Congress.
“I’ve been saying we have to take care of our vets,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago after the meetings. “We are working on something to make it great for our veterans, because they are treated very, very unfairly.”
Two senators filed a bill in the Senate Dec. 9 that would create a pilot program for an innovative technology, Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy, to address medical challenges for veterans with severe brain and emotional injuries. “Our veterans sacrificed everything to
Staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida left the body of a veteran in a shower for nine hours after the veteran died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren’t followed.
Staff members at a Florida VA hospital left a deceased veteran’s body unattended in the shower area for nine hours and then tried to cover up the mistake, according to a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Administrative Investigation Board.
Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma VA facility after a veteran was found to have maggots in his wound.
Nearly 600 veterans who received care at a Wisconsin VA hospital may have been infected with diseases such as Hepatitis and HIV due to violations in infection control procedures.
Conservative Rep. Tim Huelskamp has a PhD in agricultural legislation, but was booted off the House Agriculture Committee in 2013 after he spoke up against the reelection of Speaker John Boehner.
During Friday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) “Politicians come and go, but the service of our veterans is an unbroken chain.” And “far too often in recent years, the stories we hear [from veterans] are ones of struggle.”
The Phoenix Veterans Affairs office has built a new backlog of cases and has canceled appointments due to questionable reasons as more than 200 veterans died waiting for care in 2015, according to a new report released by the department’s inspector general.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have voted to give the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs more authority to hold employees accountable for poor performance or misconduct. The bill would also strengthen whistleblower protections and includes restricting and recouping bonus awards, including from those who retaliate against them. An employee who is convicted of a felony in connection with their job duties could have their pension reduced.
Staff at a Veterans’ Affairs hospital in Georgia granted a dying veteran his two last wishes: to be baptized and to go fishing one last time.
The chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs told Breitbart News Donald J. Trump understands the problems facing today’s veterans, and he is the only one who can fix the scandal-ridden Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs quietly moved to ban confederate flags from flying on free-standing flagpoles at its national cemeteries after a House vote earlier this year to restrict the confederate flag in national cemeteries.
76-year-old Navy veteran Peter A. Kaisen, of Islip, New York, killed himself in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Sunday after reportedly being turned away for emergency care.
The former Army staff sergeant running for Congress after giving both his legs serving with Special Operations Command in Afghanistan described the top issue in his race for the Republican nomination for Congress from Florida’s 18th Congressional District.
“It shouldn’t take the threat of a subpoena just to get a government agency to detail how it is spending taxpayers’ money,” said Rep. Jeff Miller (R.-Fla.), the chairman of the House Committee of Veterans Affairs. “Unfortunately the department has driven us to that point. Nevertheless, our investigation into this matter will continue until all the facts are at hand.”
When the president addressed Disabled Veterans of America, he “threw around a lot of impressive sounding talking points,” Miller says. As chair of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Miller has challenged how Veterans Affairs has been operated and worked to improve congressional oversight.
