When Donald Trump nominated David Shulklin to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans’ groups were shocked and disappointed. The current VA undersecretary, who served under the business-as-usual tenure of former Secretary Robert McDonald, did not seem like the guy who was going to come in and clean out the Augean stables of an agency and bureaucracy gone horribly wrong.

But even now, before his confirmation (which is all but assured), there are already signs that the culture at the VA is changing. Within a week of McDonald’s departure, two Puerto Rico employees who had been poster children for VA corruption have already been fired, Luke Rosiak writes: