The bill from Sen. Jerry Moran, the chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, would represent the first effort by a Republican lawmaker to place limits on a directive to significantly decrease federal jobs and programs.
The bill from Sen. Jerry Moran, the chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, would represent the first effort by a Republican lawmaker to place limits on a directive to significantly decrease federal jobs and programs.
Doug Collins, the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, defended the mass firing of VA workers last month as the Trump administration’s solution to making the agency more accountable and responsive to veterans.
John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became the namesake of a warship that served off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on March 27.