Tag: Veterans

The network of organizations funded by the Koch brothers are hatching an long-term plan to reform the layers of protection that often make it impossible to fire corrupt or negligent federal workers. Above, Charles Koch. (Pete Kasperowicz/Washington Examiner)

The Koch brothers are coming after bad federal workers

Pete Kasperowicz · June 25, 2017 6:01 am

The president noted the VA accountability legislation was part of his campaign promise. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs ‘one of the largest reforms to the VA in its history’

Sarah Bedford · June 23, 2017 4:28 pm

Empathetic Eye

James Gardner · June 23, 2017 5:40 am

The announcement came after the Republican-led House passed a bill Wednesday that will make it easier to fire VA employees in an effort to boost accountability. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump to nominate top Senate staffer for VA deputy secretary

Daniel Chaitin · June 22, 2017 12:30 am

Advance practice nurses, while exceptional in their role as caregivers and in the treatment of common primary care ailments, simply do not have the experience needed to make complex diagnoses. (AP Photo/Jim Salter, File)

Beltway Confidential

The VA should hire more doctors, not replace them with nurse practitioners

Kevin Campbell · June 20, 2017 5:02 pm

There are an estimated 346 VA employees who do no actual work for the taxpayers, according to a January report by the nonpartisan Government Accounting Office. Instead, these federal workers spend all of their time doing union work. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

VA Secretary Shulkin says reform needed for union official time

Sean Higgins · June 20, 2017 4:38 pm

Shulkin stressed that this was a reform, not an elimination of the civil service protections. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

VA secretary: Bill making it easier to fire workers a ‘different’ but necessary step

Sean Higgins · June 20, 2017 4:01 pm

Scott Davis is a public affairs officer for Member Services in Atlanta who has appeared on national television and testified several times in Congress. (Wikipedia Commons)

VA whistleblower who testified in Congress stripped of job duties in Atlanta

Pete Kasperowicz · June 19, 2017 10:19 pm

One agency that's had problems with whistleblower retaliation is the Department of Veterans Affairs. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Rep. Jeff Denham: A long overdue change at the VA is about to improve the lives of our veterans

Rep. Jeff Denham · June 19, 2017 12:00 pm

Spicer believes President Trump's business acumen can improve the administrative services at the VA. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House sends VA reform bill to president

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 9:25 pm

"The Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced," the group tweeted. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Progressive veterans group blocked by Trump on Twitter

Jack O'brien · June 13, 2017 2:43 pm

(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Joni Ernst on health insurance: ‘We’re in a world of hurt in Iowa’

Salena Zito · June 12, 2017 4:01 am