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VA leaders launch search for top benefits, health care leaders

VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence will oversee a search the department's new undersecretary of health and undersecretary of benefits.

Opinion

It’s time for a reckoning at Defense Health Agency over Tricare

Without accountability in Tricare management, the failed contract transition will continue to unravel benefits, the author of this op-ed argues.

Troops need better health care access, top enlisted tell lawmakers

Funding shortages and Tricare contract problems continue to plague the military health care system, senior enlisted leaders told lawmakers.

VA secretary to testify on department budget needs, workforce cuts

Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of April 7, 2025.

VA leaders to halt mortgage rescue program launched last year

The Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase program aimed to help financially strapped veterans get lower interest rates and avoid eviction from their homes.

Defense officials considering cuts to military treatment facilities

Officials are examining facilities across the military medical system, which could mean closing some facilities or downgrading some hospitals to clinics.

‘There’s a war on vets’: Dems launch plans to counter Trump’s VA moves

Democratic lawmakers vow to block bills, slow nominations and hold their own hearings to protest planned cuts to veterans programs.

Senator vows to hold all VA nominees over planned staff cuts

Plans to cut more than 80,000 staffers from VA offices would severely hurt benefits delivery, said Arizona Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps vet.

VA unveils next 13 sites for electronic health record rollout

VA planners want to speed the rollout of their controversial electronic health records overhaul project with more than a dozen new sites in 2026.

Lawmaker warns government ‘savings’ could cost vets critical services

Democrats must highlight the dangers of planned VA cuts to both veterans and the public, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano said.