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Republicans are expressing outrage at Veterans Affairs recent announcement that it wants to offer “gender reassignment” surgery to vets.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” V.A. Secretary Denis McDonough stated that there isn’t “an immediate decision” to make on whether the department will impose greater restrictions on the ability of veterans to see private doctors. Host Jake Tapper asked,

A new poll set to be released Thursday shows that two-thirds of American veterans and a majority of military families support ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bringing all U.S. troops home.

The Trump campaign released an ad on Monday, contrasting the national security records of former Vice President Joe Biden with President Donald Trump’s.

The Job Creators Network Foundation hammered Joe Biden after he spoke about Veterans Affairs during a campaign stop in Florida on Tuesday, pointing to the “irreparable harm” he and President Barack Obama inflicted on America’s veterans.

McEnany said that Bowser’s actions were just one example of Democrat mayors around the country who were failing their cities.

Businessmen, lawmakers, and health experts have lauded President Donald Trump’s expansion of telehealth for Medicare patients as “life-changing.” The reform has given Americans better access to care and improved doctor transparency efficiency.

The FDA approved MDMA therapy just weeks ago for “expanded access,” which means it may be utilized for compassionate use.

The Army gave a Special Forces captain with 17 years of service and a Purple Heart only 14 days of notice to separate from the Army.

A 62-year-old handyman and Navy veteran got a new set of pearly whites for Christmas thanks to the small town Idaho community that supported him.

President Donald Trump signed into a law a defense bill on Friday that ushered in significant reforms for military families.

According to the financial website WalletHub, some cities across America are better places than others for veterans to settle down.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday unveiled his $62 billion plan to revamp the Department of Veterans Affairs, promising to end the exclusion on what the presidential hopeful describes as “medically necessary gender-affirmation surgeries” and emphasizing the need to provide “abortion care.”

Mayor Pete Buttigieg celebrated Veterans Day on Monday, promising to change the motto of the Veterans Affairs to make it more gender inclusive.

President Donald Trump has relieved over 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees for failing their duty since becoming the president, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday vowed to reverse the Trump administration’s transgender military policy on her first day as commander-in-chief. She also pledged to provide service members and veterans with “gender-affirming care,” which includes taxpayer-funded “transition-related” surgery.

Veterans Affairs hospitals will not be “religion-free zones,” Vice President Mike Pence said during a speech on Wednesday.

The president spoke to the AMVETS Convention in Kentucky on Wednesday, announcing his decision and signing the document.

The Department of Veterans Affairs pulled all residents from an assisted living home in Van Nuys, California, after finding a veteran who had been dead for four days. The incident followed several complaints of mistreatment in the region.

Decades after the United States established the Department of Veterans Affairs, United Kingdom veterans are to have their own dedicated office for the first time after an announcement by the government Monday. 

WASHINGTON, DC, the Capitol Building — Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Congress needs to scrutinize “egregious” federal contractor “bogus bonuses.”

Brigadier General Don Bolduc told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday he wants to run for the New Hampshire U.S. Senate seat so that he could serve as a “change agent” in Washington, DC, which faces a “crisis of leadership.”

President Donald Trump’s former Veterans Affairs Secretary, David Shulkin, attended a campaign fundraiser for 2020 Democrat frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden in New York City on Monday, according to a report.

Matt Naylor, president and CEO of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO, noted the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) estimate of 140 weekly suicides among veterans, offering his remarks ahead of Memorial Day in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

An anti-Christian organization filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a Bible displayed as part of a POW/MIA memorial, calling the Bible’s presence an “outrage.”

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is correct, the VA is not broken, it is doing great,” President Trump wrote on Twitter. “But that is only because of the Trump Administration.”

Ocasio-Cortez is catching flak for her recent comments on the Department of Veterans Affairs, which she suggested was not broken.

“While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter. 

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday to create a cabinet-level task force to address the national tragedy of veteran suicides, a senior administration official confirmed. The task force will be led by Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie

NEW YORK (AP) — John Mayer is launching a foundation focused on improving the health of veterans through scientific research.

Veterans Affairs officials in Los Angeles are blatantly ignoring the needs of veterans and appear to be running some kind of business out of their offices. Despite Judicial Watch’s lawsuits, the outrages continue.

President Donald Trump donated his third-quarter salary of 2018 to a federal agency that researches alcoholism.

The Supreme Court on Monday took a case that could overrule Auer deference, a doctrine under which courts defer to federal agencies regarding the scope of their regulatory power, a case with major implications for the powers of the federal government.

“You backed me and I back you, that’s the way it works right? That’s the way it’s supposed to work in life,” he said to the audience.

He acknowledged that Heller was staunchly anti-Trump during the 2016 presidential election, but said they learned to work together.

“I was amazed and stunned by the amount of time the president of the United States spent every week on the phone, in this office, and at dinner talking about their needs, asking about veterans, and showing me a commitment that I have not seen in my 23 years in and out of this business,” Wilkie said.