Senate Confirms VA Secretary
Veterans Affairs Secretary Collins
Senate confirms Doug Collins to be VA secretary
Story by Mike Brest
The Senate confirmed Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs on Tuesday afternoon.
Collins, a former Georgia congressman who serves as a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve, was confirmed in a bipartisan, 77-23 vote.
“If I’m confirmed by this body, the VA will be my mission,” Collins said during his confirmation hearing last month. “It will be the mission to take care of our veterans and to make sure they get the benefits that they deserve.
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Collins served a combat tour in Iraq in 2008 and has been a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve, where he is still a lieutenant colonel reservist, since 2002.
Not as newsworthy to most perhaps, but the VA is weighted more heavily here. The Federal workplace tectonic changes currently occurring can’t help but touch there too; the new Secretary will not have an easy task. He seems like a solid choice and I wish him well. Thanks to Chip for the head’s up.
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I think he is a solid choice but you never know till they start to perform.
Probably better than Shin-sucki…
I personally think that LTC Collins is an outstanding choice. Time will tell. Hopefully, the winning is only just beginning.
Pulling for him.
I can’t say I know a LOT about this guy, but reading up on him, he’s US Air Force Reserve (YAY!! #Me Too!! 😀 …too soon?!?!? ) Andthen he’s a chappy so I can’t say I’ve hard of too many folks that are Chappys and are Lt. cols that are shitbags. Time will tell but his projected attiudeand the current climate seems “encouraging”
He can start with why the VA hires only fat black women with no fvcks to give as admin employees?
Perspective?
Shame on the VA!
Hopefully he’ll start with a reverification process to ensure actual veterans are the only ones getting help.
He can start by making sure that shitbags that never served or only served for a few months, not the six required, are not getting benefits. Then he can direct that his investigators look into the records of any that have falsely claimed to have been POWs, and insure they are not getting benefits for that claim. Next, he might direct that those claiming Agent Orange exposure, like that shitbird fraud Dan Bernasty, who could not possibly have been exposed. Contrary to some claims, the decks of aircraft carriers were not washed down with Agent Orange.
General Discharge = Shitbag.
Not mention the dirtbags having sex with each other when they ought to be working:
https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/probe-into-va-facility-uncovers-orgy-official-who-had-sex-with-32-coworkers-report/
If you’re getting paid for a job you can’t get fired from… I personally salute these intrepid government employees for thinking outside of the singular box.
In Mr. Bernath’s defense, he opted to remove himself from consideration for those falsely claimed benefits.
He remains unburdened by what has been, due purely to his own deep personal sacrifice in altitude over time.
Anyone who claims to have been in the same camp Rambo escaped from in ’71 should be immediately suspect.
Good
Go back to categories 1 through 5. Like it was in 2008 before Obama took all those “vets” off Medicaid and put them in the VA.
Will he clean out the fork-ups who “overpay” then demand an arm and a leg back? Those who underpay a Vet, but only give them the bare minimum in recompense?
The don’t-give-a-snots who only want to sit at the desk and get paid for looking at their phones?
Yeah, I’m still steamed about how the VA has treated AB Brother, Navy Brother, and AB Son.
That was a very ugly issue post-COVID. I work with a lot of National Guardsmen who had VA ratings and got called up on orders starting during the “Summer of Love”, transitioned to COVID support, and ended up on 2, sometimes 3 years of active-duty orders.
VA C&P payments are supposed to stop, as it’s against the law to be compensated for disability and military pay. VA didn’t always stop those payments, and some Soldiers were…Soldiers…and didn’t bank that money.
Prior to COVID, the VA would essentially draw those payments back from future payments. Those dummies that didn’t hold onto the overpayments in a high-yield account or something could pay back over time.
After the COVID-era repayment suspensions ended, the VA required immediate payment in full for all outstanding C&P debts. Oh, you can’t pay? Here’s some options for you…but we’re going to return every application denied.
The guys I know who couldn’t pay in full got their bills sent to collections, where the VA tacked on a whopping 38% penalty fee.
BOHICA!
VA during Biden..oh no, you medical records were lost in a mysterious fire back in the seventies and we can’t treat you without payment.I said that’s odd because I’ve been using the VA since 1970 and it was never mentioned nor charged for. Thank you Syracuse VA. Thieves all.
Or the stuff of saying “not combat related” for an obvious war wound due to the Dr. not signing an afidavit in your record at the time on the first denial so you have to appeal.
On a somewhat related issue, a federal judge in Taxachussetts just issued a TRO (temporary restraining order) blocking Trump’s directive to give buyouts to federal employees who accept the offer. The Deep State will fight back viciously to stop any removal of their corrupt, lazy, and useless minions that infest the bloated federal workforce (“workforce,” now there is a misnomer, since 90% of them have been “working” from home in their jammies for the past four years).
Man I hope this guy will help finally fix the VA, but I doubt it. In my 22 years of being mistreated by the VA it has only gotten worse, year by year. Damn it, I just cancelled an appointment today because I DREAD going there! It has been lies, threats, and gaslighting from them every time I have an appointment. And don’t tell me to talk to an advocate, they are part of the problem/bureaucracy and do NOTHING to make anything better; they’re actually moles used by the “leaders” of the VA to flag you if you make noise. And people wonder why 33 veterans take their lives every day. Look up how many vets have taken their own lives in VA parking lots, oh wait, the VA covers those up! If NOBODY has your back and you can’t see a damn doctor without threats and intimidation, WTF???