We’re here anytime, day or night - 24/7
If you are a Veteran in crisis or concerned about one, connect with our caring, qualified responders for confidential help. Many of them are Veterans themselves.
Get more resources at VeteransCrisisLine.net.
VA Accomplishments: 2025
Putting Veterans First
Under President Trump, VA is putting Veterans first by relentlessly focusing on customer service and convenience. We’re making your VA benefits better, faster and easier to use than ever before.
/
VA is making major improvements during the second Trump Administration.
- The backlog of Veterans waiting for VA benefits is down 62% since Jan. 20, 2025, after it increased 24% during the Biden Administration.
- VA has eliminated the backlog of Veteran families waiting for VA health care.
- VA is processing record numbers of disability claims, reaching an all-time fiscal-year high of three million claims processed Sept. 30.
- VA opened 25 new health care clinics, expanding access for Vets around the country.
- Since Jan. 20, VA has offered Veterans more than 1.9 million appointments outside of normal operating hours. These early-morning, evening, and weekend appointments are giving Veterans more timely and convenient options for care.
- VA will spend nearly $5 billion in FY26 to modernize, repair and improve health care facilities, the largest non-recurring maintenance investment in VA’s history. VA is also spending an additional $800 million on infrastructure improvements to ensure department facilities provide safe and effective patient care. These additional funds come from savings gleaned from various VA reform efforts.
- VA launched a reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration management structure, a long overdue step that will empower local hospital directors, eliminate duplicative layers of bureaucracy and ensure consistent application of VA policies across all department medical facilities.
- VA issued a request for proposals for new community care contracts that will improve health care choice and quality for Veterans over the next decade.
- VA increased the expenditure cap for in-home and community-based services for Veterans with certain complex medical conditions. This will significantly reduce out-of-pocket costs for eligible Veterans and their families for services like home health aide, home respite, community adult day health care, Veteran Directed Care, and skilled home health, which will make it easier for Veterans to continue residing in their homes.
- VA is accelerating the deployment of its integrated electronic health record system, after the program was nearly dormant for almost two years under the Biden Administration.
- VA permanently housed 51,936 homeless Veterans across the country in FY25, the highest total in seven years.
- VA has made it easier and faster for VA-enrolled Veterans to access care from non-VA providers at the department’s expense.
- VA has made it easier for women Veterans to access gynecology care.
- VA partnered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify and recover $106 million in duplicate billing.
- VA has brought tens of thousands of employees back to the office, where we can work better as a team to serve Veterans.
- VA has terminated union contracts for most bargaining unit employees and redirected millions in wasteful union spending back to Veterans.
- VA ended DEI at the department, reversing the divisive Biden-era policies and stopping more than $14 million in DEI spending.
- VA is phasing out treatment for gender dysphoria. This commonsense reform should have been done years ago, but only President Trump and Secretary Collins had the courage to do it.
- VA canceled Biden Administration plans to spend $77 million on electric vehicle chargers and is instead spending the money to fight cancer and improve health care at facilities around the nation.
Latest Press Releases
All releases
VA releases annual Veteran suicide prevention report, updated with 2023 data
VA sets new record for customer satisfaction in memorial services
VA hiring more than 300 employment counselors and specialists
VA increases in-home and community-based services expenditure cap for Veterans with complex conditions
VA announces new chief of staff
VA to invest all-time high of nearly $5B to improve health care infrastructure
VA starts search for permanent Veterans Benefits Administration leader
VA hospitals recognized for reducing physician burnout
VA provides over $77 million in grants to state Veterans cemeteries
VA launches Veterans Health Administration reorganization
VA to improve health care choice and quality for Veterans with new community care contracts
VA makes it easier for women Veterans to access gynecology care
Disclaimer
This page includes links to other websites outside our control and jurisdiction. VA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of non-VA Web sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy or terms and conditions of those sites to fully understand what information is collected and how it is used.