The introduction of the new bill formally kicks off what is expected to be a marquee debate during the Trump administration over the future of the VA's community care program that allows veterans to see private doctors using VA funding.

The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of the Veterans Health Administration's roughly 400,000-employee workforce.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs for delays in paying veterans millions of dollars in medical co-payment refunds and for not having a plan to

Florida Senator Rick Scott, alongside Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jerry Moran (R-KS) and House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost (R-IL), introduced the bipartisan Restore VA Accountability Act aimed at strengthening the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) ability to discipline and remove underperforming employees.

Punishing underperforming VA workers was a priority during Trump's first term. Congressional leaders want to zero in on the problem again.

Lawmakers are making the fast-track firing bill a legislative priority in a new session of Congress as the incoming Trump administration proposes similar goals.

In one of their first concrete actions of the new congressional session, the chairmen of the committees that oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs introduced a bill aimed at making it easier to fire bad VA employees.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Doug Collins, President Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, promised Tuesday that the agency would not assist with migrant healthcare under his leadership.

I have been following a report since July of last year about an issue at five Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) hospitals that included our local Mountain Home VA, located

The top watchdogs for the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs were among the individuals dismissed by Trump.

The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday released its subcommittee assignments for the new Congress. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., chairs the committee, and Angie Craig, D-Minn., is the ranking member. The subcommittee assignments are as follows:

They include Representative Bob Latta of Ohio, who supported a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage; Representative Mike Bost of Illinois, who voted against a bill to protect marriage equality ...