VA Secretary Doug Collins: âThe first 100 days of the second Trump Administration have been full of great news for Americaâs Veterans. Under POTUSâ leadership, we are putting Veterans first!â
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We're 100 days into the second Trump administration, and our progress so far has been historic. The American people gave President Trump a mandate to shake up Washington, and that's exactly what he's doing. Here is the change we brought to the Department of Veterans Affairs in the first hundred days of the second Trump administration. We are refocusing our core mission, which is providing the best possible care and benefits to veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors. That means we're making sure veterans get the health care choices they were promised under the Mission Act. We're taking thousands of employees off of remote work and bringing them back into the office where we can work as a team to better serve veterans. We're phasing out treatment for gender dysphoria and directing all savings to helping paralyzed veterans and amputees. We're accelerating the deployment of our electronic health record system after the program was nearly dormant under the Biden administration. We are processing a record number of disability claims. We're redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars from our non-mission critical efforts to health care, benefits, and services that directly support VA beneficiaries. And we've ended DEI at the Department, reversing the divisive Biden era policies and stopping more than $14 million in DEI spending. Hey, but folks, we have so much more to do. The Biden administration was very good at spending money and hiring people, but not so good at solving tough problems. In fact, under President Biden, VA failed to address nearly all of the Department's most serious challenges, including benefits backlogs, rising health care wait times, and major difficulties with survivor benefits. We've got our work cut out for us, for sure, but this is exactly what I signed up for. We will reform the Department to make it work better for America's veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors – that I can promise you. And just like President Trump, we will keep fighting until the job is done.
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