Tag: Veterans

Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks to President Donald Trump during a meeting about veterans affairs, Friday, March 17, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.

David Shulkin: Trump fired me hours after scheduling a meeting for the next day

Naomi Lim · April 1, 2018 4:16 pm

David Shulkin, the VA's current undersecretary for health, is expected to sail through the confirmation process, unlike many of President Trump's other Cabinet picks.

David Shulkin on his dismissal: ‘I don’t think that this was the president’

Kyle Feldscher · April 1, 2018 1:42 pm

The Veterans Affairs Department's internal watchdog has reportedly launched an investigation into a 10-day trip taken by Secretary David Shulkin and his wife earlier this summer.

David Shulkin: My political enemies used corruption allegations to push me out to speed privatization

Kyle Feldscher · April 1, 2018 1:32 pm

Bernie Sanders: Ronny Jackson will bend to pressure to privatize the VA

Kyle Feldscher · April 1, 2018 1:25 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks at a news conference. Shulkin's job security is subject to widespread speculation following release of an inspector general report showing his staff doctored an email to justify paying his wife's travel expenses in Europe.

David Shulkin: Trump doesn’t have the ‘right people’ around him

Daniel Chaitin · March 31, 2018 5:24 pm

Hector Barajas-Varela, a deported U.S. Army veteran, right, celebrates with Norma Chavez-Peterson, executive director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties, after Barajas-Varela was delivered an announcement granting his American citizenship in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, March 29, 2018. Barajas came to the United States from Mexico when he was 7 years old and, after graduating high school, served in the U.S. Army from 1995 to 2001, when he was honorably discharged, according to a federal lawsuit filed in December seeking citizenship. He was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and received several military accolades.

Deported Army veteran set to receive US citizenship next month

Diana Stancy Correll · March 30, 2018 11:22 pm

Beltway Confidential

Will GOP voters stay home in 2018? You would think

Adam Brandon · March 30, 2018 4:05 pm

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Trevor Noah on Dr. Ronny Jackson: ‘Anyone who has held Trump’s scrotum’ is ‘prepared for anything in this world’

Katie Leach · March 30, 2018 3:34 pm

Exit swampy Shulkin

Washington Examiner · March 30, 2018 2:28 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on community care.

Fired Shulkin unloads on Trump administration

Sarah Bedford · March 30, 2018 4:01 am

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission ceremonial groundbreaking for the National World War I Memorial at Pershing Park, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in Washington.

David Shulkin says Trump didn’t mention he was getting fired in phone call hours before he was let go

Diana Stancy Correll · March 30, 2018 1:41 am

David Shulkin sides with Trump on persistent VA dilemma

Diana Stancy Correll · March 29, 2018 10:52 pm