Florida Senator Rick Scott, alongside Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jerry Moran (R-KS) and House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost (R-IL), introduced the bipartisan Restore VA Accountability Act aimed at strengthening the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) ability to discipline and remove underperforming employees.
The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of the Veterans Health Administration's roughly 400,000-employee workforce.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs for delays in paying veterans millions of dollars in medical co-payment refunds and for not having a plan to
Punishing underperforming VA workers was a priority during Trump's first term. Congressional leaders want to zero in on the problem again.
Lawmakers are making the fast-track firing bill a legislative priority in a new session of Congress as the incoming Trump administration proposes similar goals.
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Doug Collins, President Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, promised Tuesday that the agency would not assist with migrant healthcare under his leadership.
In one of their first concrete actions of the new congressional session, the chairmen of the committees that oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs introduced a bill aimed at making it easier to fire bad VA employees.
VA Secretary Denis McDonough said the VA has briefed the incoming Trump administration about the VA’s unaddressed budget shortfall.
Former Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a former Air Force Reserve chaplain, a veteran of the Iraq War and says he wants to improve veterans' services.
With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a number of bills that could widely expand veterans’ access to the private health care system.
A father-son duo were among the 13 graduates for the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office 58th Basic Academy Class.
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