Abortion rights roundup: June 16, 2023
The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - June 16, 2023The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - June 16, 2023The GOP's Limit, Save, Grow Act would slash federal spending by 22% with no exceptions for veterans' programs.
By Josh Israel - May 23, 2023Two Republicans joined Democrats to reject a proposal that would have limited the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer abortion care.
By Associated Press - April 23, 2023The Department of Justice recently confirmed the Department of Veterans Affairs has the authority to provide abortions in limited circumstances, even if the pregnant veteran is located in a state that entirely bans abortions.
By Lisa Needham - September 29, 2022Senate Republicans blocked the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022, which would expand health care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
By Josh Israel - July 28, 2022Eighty-eight Republicans voted against the compromise to expand health care coverage for more than 3.5 million veterans.
By Josh Israel - July 14, 2022The Senate bill passed on Tuesday would expand health care coverage for more than 3.5 million veterans.
By Josh Israel - June 07, 2022As many as 2.5 million veterans may have been exposed to burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By Oliver Willis - April 25, 2022The Biden administration announced plans intended to ‘to embed equity, racial justice, and gender equality in day-to-day governing.’
By Oliver Willis - April 14, 2022They are among the 70,000 federal employees who will see their wages increase.
By Oliver Willis - January 24, 2022The Biden administration wants the VA to provide gender-affirming surgery it says would ‘save lives.’ Republicans want to stop it.
By Casey Quinlan - October 14, 2021VA Secretary Denis McDonough called the surgery coverage something ‘transgender veterans have called for and deserved for a long time.’
By Casey Quinlan - June 21, 2021The closure of halls means vets dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and other wartime trauma have lost a critical safe space amid an isolating pandemic, leaders say.
By Associated Press - March 27, 2021Donald Trump was already working to make life harder for America’s veterans, and the pandemic made things worse.
By Donna Provencher - March 12, 2021President Joe Biden has addressed food and income insecurity as Americans continue to suffer during the pandemic.
By Donna Provencher - January 25, 2021A report found Robert Wilkie targeted a woman who said she was sexually assaulted at a VA medical facility in Washington, DC.
By Associated Press - December 14, 2020The Department of Veterans Affairs declared September ‘Insider Threat Awareness Month.’
By Donna Provencher - October 26, 2020Trump bragged about receiving an award that doesn’t exist and suggested he fixed the VA, something begun under Obama.
By Associated Press - September 26, 2020Veterans Choice was passed and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014.
By Ron Filipkowski - August 27, 2020Trump has also consistently taken credit for fixing the VA, even as systemic problems persist.
By Emily Singer - August 26, 2020‘Our mission is to preserve and protect life.’
By Associated Press - May 31, 2020The request comes as outrage builds over the death of more than 70 veterans sickened by the coronavirus at a home in Massachusetts.
By Associated Press - May 05, 2020‘In VA facilities all over the country, they are doing a really incredible job trying to respond to the crisis in a situation where they have been deliberately crippled by the Trump administration,’ said veterans health policy analyst Suzanne Gordon.
By Associated Press - April 23, 2020Trump appears down on whistleblowers after a whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry that threatens his presidency.
By Emily Singer - November 11, 2019Donald Trump promised to protect whistleblowers ‘who do the right thing.’ He has not.
By Josh Israel - October 24, 2019The Texas Republican doubled down on his bold view that the nation taking care of its military veterans is a terrible idea.
By Josh Israel - September 19, 2019Trump’s latest attack makes it harder for immigrants to get green cards and visas, but the VA is refusing to stand up for immigrant veterans.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 22, 2019Trump’s golf buddies made life hell for workers at the VA.
By Lisa Needham - August 21, 2019Rep. Mark Takano wants to know just how many more wealthy Mar-a-Lago members are trying to influence policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 15, 2019All you have to do to get your ideas in front of the Secretary of the VA is be Mar-a-Lago golf pals with Donald Trump.
By Lisa Needham - March 07, 2019