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If a sitting president and the entire executive branch were simultaneously removed or incapacitated, the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act lay out a specific order: the vice president i...
The VA’s published 2025 income limits determine whether a single veteran’s household income places them in priority groups that affect eligibility and copays; VA counts last year’s gross household inc...
Available reporting shows Virginia state employees were approved for a one-time 1.5% bonus paid June 16, 2025, plus 3% raises in 2025 and 2026 for classified staff; separate federal VA (VHA) bonus pro...
High-profile deportations of U.S. military veterans — including reported cases such as Georgia Army veteran Godfrey Wade and Purple Heart recipient José Barco — have driven lawmakers and advocates to ...
VHA’s 2025 payments landscape shows both statutory benefit rate updates (Special Monthly Compensation, DIC, and other VA allowances effective Dec. 1, 2024 or Oct. 1, 2024) and separate personnel pay c...
The available reporting does not show a clear, documented instance in which "President Trump's doctor quit because he refused to sign off on Trump's health report." Coverage identifies multiple physic...
Donald Trump does receive the statutory presidential salary of , but publicly stated he has been donating his quarterly paychecks to government entities and charities rather than keeping them for pers...
The Congressional Budget Office has included options that would introduce means‑testing for VA disability compensation beginning as early as January 2026, for example proposing full benefits only for ...
Yes. Several U.S. presidents have given away their presidential pay rather than keeping it: Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy donated their full presidential salaries to charity, and Donald Trump ple...
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a nonprofit that provides no-cost programs for post‑9/11 wounded, ill, or injured veterans focused on mental health, physical wellness, peer support, career and family...
The Department of Veterans Affairs determines VA health‑care eligibility in 2025 primarily by household gross income, using both a national income limit and geographically‑adjusted income thresholds (...
Counting U.S. military deaths across “major American wars” requires choices about which conflicts to include and whether to count battle deaths only or all service-related deaths; available compiled t...
President Donald Trump publicly pledged to return his presidential salary and specific reporting indicates his was directed to the Department of Veterans Affairs, though competing accounts and broader...
The Major Richard Star Act would eliminate the statutory “offset” that reduces military retired pay when a retiree also receives Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation, extending full ...
Priority Group 5 veterans are generally enrolled because they receive VA pension benefits (low-income wartime veterans, age 65+ or permanently and totally disabled) and are included in VA’s medical be...
The available data converge on the same basic finding: roughly has a 100% VA disability rating, with published counts clustering around in that category. The Department of Veterans Affairs and related...
The FY2025 federal budget and related agency announcements commit roughly $3.2 billion to VA homeless programs for Oct. 1, 2024–Sept. 30, 2025, funding prevention, rapid rehousing, transitional housin...
Donald Trump made and his foundation recorded grants to veteran organizations, but multiple investigations and reporting show that complicate claims he was a consistent donor to veterans’ charities du...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has not issued a clear, department-wide announcement specifically titled “2025 retention bonuses for VHA staff” in the materials provided; reporting shows the VA bot...
The Department of Veterans Affairs under the Trump administration has pursued large-scale workforce reductions: internal memos and multiple outlets report plans to cut as many as ~80,000 jobs and the ...