VA Press Room

VA Secretary Doug Collins shares insight on his vision for the department.

VA personnel receive guidance for return to in-person work policy.

VA gives veterans more time to transition to the department’s new online login system.

WASHINGTON — In response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Jan. 27 memo (M-25-13) regarding temporarily pausing certain agency grant, loan and financial assistance programs, the Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it has conducted a comprehensive analysis of all its federal financial assistance programs and consulted with OMB.

VA has determined that all 44 of its financial assistance programs will continue uninterrupted and that all VA programs and operations will continue uninterrupted.

“This will have no impact on VA health care, benefits or beneficiaries,” said Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter.

VA ends DEI, stopping millions of dollars in spending on diversity, equity and inclusion.

VA makes pertinent hiring-freeze exemptions related to Jan. 20, Executive Order halting federal government hiring.

New VA political appointees named in Trump Administration.

VA expanded the Veterans Legacy Memorial — the nation’s largest digital platform dedicated to the memory of Veterans and service members — to allow Veterans to tell their own story before they pass away.

Terrence Hayes (VA Press Secretary):  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to today’s press conference. Before we begin, I’d like to first thank our VA Press Corps for being great professionals these past four years. Your reporting has helped VA educate and inform Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors nationwide about the benefits and care available to them.

VA is making acute and chronic leukemias, multiple myelomas, myelodysplastic syndromes, myelofibrosis, urinary bladder, ureter, and related genitourinary cancers presumptive for service-connection for: