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Originally published:<\/strong> 2025-05-09T22:19:47+00:00. Historical source article: benefits, rules, amounts and deadlines may have changed. Check the official source for current information.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 After President Trump signed an executive order<\/a> to provide better care to Veterans, improve accountability for such care, and establish a National Center for Warrior Independence for homeless Veterans, Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins released the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder President Trump, VA is implementing a host of important reforms to improve care and benefits for our nation\u2019s heroes,\u201d said VA Secretary Doug Collins.<\/strong> \u201cThis executive order builds on the progress we\u2019ve made so far and puts us on a path to fixing some of the department\u2019s most vexing problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter decades of mismanagement, VA has been leasing parts of its 388-acre West Los Angeles VA Medical Center campus to a wealthy and exclusive private school and the University of California, Los Angeles, baseball team. <\/a>Today\u2019s executive order will enable us to ensure VA\u2019s West Los Angeles Campus is being used as intended: to benefit Veterans. Our goal is to turn the campus into a beacon of hope and a destination for homeless Veterans from across the nation who can travel there to find housing and support and start their journey back to self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder President Biden, VA failed to hold its employees properly accountable<\/a> and actively fought<\/a> congressional attempts to make it easier to fire poor-performing workers \u2013 even as health care wait times and benefits backlogs increased. With this executive order, VA will become the most accountable agency in the entire federal government. We\u2019re going to celebrate the vast majority of VA employees who do a great job every day, hold employees accountable when they fall short of the mission and work to fix the wait-time and backlog issues that developed during the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Hampshire is the only state in the contiguous United States without a full-service VA medical center. In response to this executive order, we will develop a plan to ensure that is no longer the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional announcements regarding VA\u2019s implementation of the EO are forthcoming. Read more about the EO here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a>. Its Veterans is an independent publication and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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