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January 8, 2025
Twitter Minority News Home Ranking Member Minority News Blumenthal Meets with Presumptive Trump VA Secretary Nominee Doug Collins Wednesday January 8 2025 WASHINGTON DC Yesterday U S Senator Richard Blumenthal...presumptive nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs VA to discuss his plans to serve America s veterans and their families I made clear to Doug Collins that VA needs a leader who is willing...the health care and benefits our veterans have earned said Blumenthal That means strongly supporting VA employees continuing to implement the PACT Act for toxic exposed veterans and their families and utilizing...
January 29, 2026
Minority News At Hearing Blumenthal Demands Information from VA Secretary I Want Numbers After months of stonewalling Blumenthal pressed Secretary Collins for updated staffing loss numbers mental health wait...Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins at a Committee oversight hearing Blumenthal started his questioning by pressing the Secretary for a full accounting of 6 billion VA was given to spend on...think is very important because apparently it was used to push out essential VA health care providers rather than sustaining VA medical operations as intended R ather than going into the rhetoric I want...
May 6, 2025
Blumenthal Takes VA Secretary Collins to Task You Have Failed to Give Us Any Information or Answers Collins failed to provide Blumenthal specific numbers or information on his plans to cut 83 000 VA employees...Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins to task on his failure to be responsive and transparent to Congress regarding his cuts and planned firings of 83 000 VA employees Following Collins...I listened to you recite those problems you encountered as VA Secretary Not a single one of them will be solved or addressed by slashing the VA workforce by 83 000 people Those workers on the chopping block...
April 8, 2026
Minority News Blumenthal Takano Colleagues Blast VA Secretary for Ignoring Authority to Help Recruit and Retain Doctors Lawmakers call out VA Secretary for sitting on doctor pay authority while overseeing...demanding Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins utilize an existing authority to pay certain doctors above the Department s 400 000 salary cap Secretary Collins has publicly called for new...new legislation from Congress to allow VA to pay doctors above this salary cap despite already having the authority to do this We write today regarding the implementation of Section 142 of Public Law 118...
February 19, 2025
Member Minority News Blumenthal Grills VA Nominee on Trump Administration s Dangerous Policies for Veterans Lack of Transparency Blumenthal to VA Deputy Secretary nominee Accountability starts today Wednesday...Veterans Affairs Committee hearing today to consider the nomination of Paul Lawrence to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT grilled Lawrence on his views of the...Administration policies on veterans including the Department of Veterans Affairs VA recent termination of 1 000 VA employees VA Secretary Doug Collins celebrated these mass terminations last week and throughout...
January 7, 2026
From VA Secretary on Staggering Increase of Sexual Harassment Assault Reports at VA Senator s letter follows Collins inactivation of required harassment prevention and accountability training for VA workers...from Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins regarding data revealing a staggering increase in reports of sexual harassment and assault taking place at VA facilities Blumenthal stressed his...light of Collins inactivation of required harassment prevention and accountability training for VA employees VA has experienced a staggering increase in reports of sexual harassment and assault since the Department...
November 24, 2025
Minority News Blumenthal Takano Press VA Secretary Collins to Immediately Increase Funding for Critical Program Housing Homeless Veterans Committee leaders call on Trump VA to follow the law and increase reimbursement...Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano D CA are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins to immediately increase reimbursement rates for organizations housing and providing...lawmakers called out Secretary Collins for failing to comply with a law that ordered increasing these critical funds In January Congress directed the Department of Veterans Affairs VA to increase the reimbursement...
July 23, 2025
Presses Trump VA Nominee for Answers We re Asking for Basic Transparency At hearing Blumenthal grills nominee to lead VA s health care system on his role as senior advisor to VA Secretary Collins and his...Bartrum the nominee to be Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs VA on his role working as Senior Advisor to VA Secretary Doug Collins and the Trump VA s lack of transparency around...confirmed Bartrum would be tasked with leading VA s health care system serving more than nine million veterans and overseeing VA s health care workforce Alarmingly the VA is poised to lose 30 000 employees by the...
March 10, 2025
Home Ranking Member Minority News Blumenthal Senators Swing Back at VA Secretary Collins Blatantly Dishonest Claims that Cutting 83 000 VA Employees Will Have No Impact on Veterans Care and Benefits We will...truth that cutting back to 2019 staffing levels means firing over 18 000 nurses ten percent of the VA police force nearly 10 000 schedulers and more than thirty percent of the Veterans Benefits Administration...today led a group of 25 Senators blasting Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins plans to cut more than 80 000 VA employees this year including at least 20 000 veterans and stressing the...
October 23, 2025
Trump VA Cuts on Care for Veterans with Spinal Cord Injuries Disorders At hearing VA officials refused to answer basic questions regarding how specialized SCI D care has been impacted by Secretary Collins...of Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins slashing and demoralizing workforce directives on spinal cord injuries disorders and diseases SCI D care at VA This follows testimony from veterans...care they rely on from VA The Department of Veterans Affairs VA system of care for veterans with spinal cord injuries disorders and diseases SCI D is a critical component of VA s health care system leveraging...
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