LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The Senate has officially confirmed David Shulkin for the position of secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in a unanimous vote. Shulkin, appointed by former President Barack Obama for the position of under secretary for health at the VA, was approved Monday evening by the Senate to…
Jonah Bennett Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Friday that more claims about the agency should be fact-checked, just as he uttered a complete falsehood. “I’m always glad when veterans issues are raised, I just wish there would be more fact-checking on some of the numbers that are used,” McDonald said at the…
Jonah Bennett Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a plan Saturday to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs, which was roundly criticized for vagueness. While in front of the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Va., Trump said, “We’re going to take care of those wounded warriors and we’re going to take care of our vets better than anybody,”…
Jonah Bennett The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) claims it provides strong support to whistleblowers, but one high-ranking union official in an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation slams Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblowers for being uninformed and not coordinating with the union. J. Ward Morrow, assistant general counsel for AFGE, wrote an email to…
Jonah Bennett Directly across from the Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Phoenix stands a large billboard which reads, “VA Is Lying, Veterans Are Dying.” The billboard is new as of Monday. The Phoenix VA has become emblematic of scandal and corruption in the department. Whistleblower retaliation, police corruption, unauthorized access of private medical records,…