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Congress Reaches Deal to Avert Shutdown of Veterans’ Health Choice Program
Lawmakers reached a deal late Thursday to stave off a painful shutdown of the multibillion-dollar Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. But the days-long stand...
By Phillip Carter
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Major disciplinary action at VA publicly posted online
Phil Carter, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses a new transparency effort at the Department of Veterans Affairs — a public-facing list of emplo...
By Phillip Carter
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A Bipartisan Congress That Works? Veterans Committees Show How It’s Done
Magnanimous hearings. Bipartisan votes. Substantial legislation on its way to becoming law. This is Congress? Something strange is happening in the staid hearing rooms of the ...
By Phillip Carter
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No competition, no cost estimate as Kansas City firm picked for coveted VA contract
The Trump administration picked Kansas City-based Cerner Corp. for a coveted contract to modernize veterans health records, but the news came with a caveat: There will be no c...
By Phillip Carter
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VA eyes building closures to boost care under Trump
The Trump administration is considering whether to shut down Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities and consolidate hospitals to save money. The move, tentatively sup...
By Phillip Carter
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Vladimir Putin took time at a press conference to gloat about Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin loves to troll the United States. But he took it to new heights during a press conference in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday morning. In the midst...
By Phillip Carter
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Army, Marine Corps Look to Lighten Load for Combat Troops
The Army and Marine Corps are working together to lighten the things they carry. Close up urban combat and the threat of improvised explosive devices in Iraq following the 200...
By Phillip Carter
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VA Urged To Take Advantage Of Momentum And Keep Reforming Itself
The combination of a GOP controlled government and a secretary held over from the Obama administration may have created an opportunity for progress at the troubled Department ...
By Phillip Carter
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Watchdog Criticizes Veterans Affairs’ Suicide Hotline
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide crisis hotline is understaffed, poorly supervised and sometimes leaves veterans on hold so long that they simply hang up, according...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump's Pentagon plans in flux after Navy secretary nominee withdraws
Having now lost two of his three picks to become the military's next service secretaries, it appears increasingly likely that President Donald Trump won't have his top team in...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump's new warrior-scholar
President Donald Trump has picked one of the military’s leading warrior-scholars to restore order to the National Security Council — but also one who has staked out a decidedl...
By Phillip Carter
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VA Hospitals Still Struggling With Adding Staff Despite Billions From Choice Act
Before they get to work on reforming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Congress and the White House might want to take a closer look at the last time they tried it — a ...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump team to remove commander of D.C.'s National Guard in middle of inauguration
The Army general who heads the District of Columbia National Guard and has an integral part in overseeing the inauguration said Friday that he will be removed from command eff...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump picks top vets health official as the next VA secretary
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named the Department of Veterans Affairs top health official his pick to run the entire veterans bureaucracy, a surprise move that pu...
By Phillip Carter
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David Shulkin Chosen for Secretary of Veterans Affairs
President-elect Donald Trump named David Shulkin on Wednesday to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Shulkin currently serves as the head of the VA’s health-care sys...
By Phillip Carter
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David Shulkin Is Trump’s Pick for Veterans Affairs Secretary
President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday selected the head of the nation’s sprawling veterans health care system, Dr. David J. Shulkin, an appointee of President Obama, to...
By Phillip Carter
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Why Trump still hasn’t named a leader for the Department of Veterans Affairs
With confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s Cabinet set to start this week, the president-elect still has not chosen a leader for the Department of Veterans Affairs, an agen...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump pressures Lockheed, says told Boeing to price out fighter aircraft
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump heaped pressure on Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday, saying he viewed costs for the aerospace company's F-35 fighter as too high and had aske...
By Phillip Carter
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Army veteran Vincent Viola, billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers, named Trump’s Army secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated as his Army secretary Vincent Viola, an Army veteran who became a billionaire after founding an electronic trading firm and went on ...
By Phillip Carter
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Air Force One Costs Billions of Dollars Because It’s a Flying White House
Donald Trump took aim at one of the most visible emblems of the American presidency with his attack on plans for a new Air Force One, turning the iconoclastic message that got...
By Phillip Carter