Despite Trump’s promises, access to VA mental healthcare remains elusive

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Earlier this year, the Trump administration purged 270,000 pending Veteran’s Affair applications that were the subject of multiple ongoing congressional committee & Government Accountability Office investigations.

Dr. Richard Stone, head of the Veteran’s Health Administration, known as VHA, allegedly consented to the purge during a site visit to VA’s national enrollment office in Atlanta, which manages the VHA enrollment system one week after the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, by a 28-year-old Marine Corps veteran.

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