Department of Veterans Affairs
See also Secretary of Veterans Affairs Nominee David Shulkin.
Timeline
| 2016.12.22 | Veterans groups expresses alarm at Trump's plans to privatize veterans' health care. latimes.com |
| 2016.12.28 | Trump considers plan to let veterans opt out of V.A. medical care, offers few details. nytimes.com |
| 2017.01.11 | Trump nominates David Shulkin, a physician serving in the Obama administration as VA undersecretary, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. washingtonpost.com (See also David Shulkin) |
| 2018.02.14 | Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin’s chief of staff doctored an email and made false statements to create a pretext for taxpayers to cover expenses for the secretary’s wife on a 10-day trip to Europe last summer, the agency’s inspector general has found. washingtonpost.com (See also False Statements, Trump Cabinet, David Shulkin) Shulkin is one of five current and former Trump administration Cabinet members under investigation by agency inspectors general over their travel expenses. |
| 2018.03.28 | After weeks of uncertainty atop the Department of Veterans Affairs, Donald Trump said he plans to replace its secretary, David J. Shulkin, with Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, the White House physician and a rear admiral in the Navy. nytimes.com (See also Resignations and Dismissals, David Shulkin) |
| 2018.04.30 | The intercession of a well-connected Florida doctor, as a member of Mar-a-Lago has infuriated those overseeing the $16B contract Department of Veterans Affairs project. politico.com (See also Corruption, Conflicts of Interest, David Shulkin) |
| 2018.08.07 | Peter O'Rourke is one-third of an informal council that is exerting sweeping influence on the VA from Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, none of whom have ever served in the U.S. military or government. propublica.org (See also Conflicts of Interest, Unprecedented Actions) |