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Area of public policy concerned with the relation between a government and its veteran communities
Donald Trump publicly pledged to forgo his $400,000 presidential salary and donated portions of his pay in multiple quarters to federal agencies; public records and fact-checks confirm of those donati...
Reporting consistently describes Tina Peters as a “Gold Star mother” — meaning she is publicly identified as a parent who lost a child who served in the military — and multiple outlets and her own mat...
President Donald Trump’s most widely cited, specific comment about a war veteran is the line made in reference to Senator John McCain, a Vietnam-era prisoner of war; that exact wording appears in repo...
The Trump administration pursued an aggressive campaign to reduce the Veterans Affairs (VA) backlog of disability claims, reporting substantial declines in pending claims and record-setting production...
President Donald Trump publicly pledged to donate his presidential salary and did make repeated quarterly contributions to federal agencies during most of his term, but contemporary reporting and tax-...
Several U.S. presidents have declined to personally keep the full statutory presidential pay, but they have not all handled the proceeds the same way: John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover are repeatedly...
Concurrent receipt allows many military retirees to collect both military retired pay and VA disability compensation after laws changed in the early 2000s; SSDI is a separate Social Security program a...
Federal law changes affecting VA disability compensation in 2024–2025 were primarily adjustments that tied VA benefit increases to Social Security cost‑of‑living adjustments (COLA) and implementation ...
Immigration courts and enforcement under the Trump administration increased removal actions that ensnared non‑citizen service members and veterans, producing dozens of high‑profile and many less publi...
Veterans applying under the VA’s updated net worth rules must report all assets plus annual income; the VA’s net worth limit for Dec. 1, 2024–Nov. 30, 2025 is $159,240, and guidance makes clear the VA...
Research since 2023 shows COVID-19 vaccines continued to reduce severe outcomes — updated 2023–2025 formulations were associated with lower risks of emergency visits, hospitalizations and death in mul...
Senate Democrats’ 2024 continuing resolution demand centers on maintaining fiscal year 2025 funding at levels with targeted exceptions, extensions through October 31, 2025 for health and veterans prog...
Congress has launched a mix of formal letters, committee hearings, funding maneuvers and new legislation to scrutinize the Veterans Affairs’ planned workforce reductions and related contractor actions...
Federal responsibility for funding military and veterans’ housing shifted in form between the Biden and Trump periods: under Biden-era budgets and Pentagon practice, Congress and the Defense Departmen...
The central accountability reform under President Trump was the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017, which and shortened appeal timelines to make disciplinary acti...
Donald J. Trump publicly pledged and repeatedly delivered quarterly transfers of his presidential paychecks to federal agencies during his term, and multiple government press releases and news investi...
Aid and Attendance (A&A) is a specific qualifying condition within the Veterans Affairs Special Monthly Compensation (SMC) framework that pays extra, tax‑free money when a veteran (or spouse/surviving...
Two clear precedents exist for White House physicians leaving or being removed under contested circumstances: politically high-profile departures tied to misconduct allegations surrounding Rear Admira...
The Veterans Affairs enrollment system of eight Priority Groups remains intact, but Congress and VA have modified who falls into higher groups in the last five years — most notably through the Honorin...
The Phase 3 trials reported in late 2020 showed near-identical high efficacy for the two mRNA vaccines in adults — Pfizer‑BioNTech’s BNT162b2 at about 95% and Moderna’s mRNA‑1273 at roughly 94–95% — b...