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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.
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VA is making major improvements during the second Trump Administration.
President Trump’s VA:
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VA opened 34 new health care clinics, expanding access for Vets around the country.
- The backlog of Veterans waiting for VA benefits is down 67% since Jan. 20, 2025, after it increased 24% during the Biden Administration. In February, this backlog fell to less than 100,000 claims for the first time since 2020.
- 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.
- Since Jan. 20, 2025, VA has offered Veterans more than 2.3 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.
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VA is expanding the use of its new External Provider Scheduling system, which gives VA employees instant access to the scheduling systems of all community care providers and enables VA to book appointments for Veterans in a matter of minutes.
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VA took steps to make it easier for Veterans to maximize their G.I. Bill education benefits, by automatically assessing their eligibility for expanded benefits under two recent court rulings.
- VA set a new record for customer satisfaction in memorial services and achieved the highest score ever by any public or private organization as measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
- VA terminated the illegal and wasteful West Los Angeles VAMC leases and license, a critical step toward implementing President Trump’s executive order to establish the National Center for Warrior Independence for Homeless Veterans.
- VA reversed a decades-old wrong by protecting Veterans’ Second Amendment rights. Effective February 2026, VA will no longer report Veterans to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System as “prohibited persons” only because they need help from a fiduciary in managing their VA benefits.
- 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
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VA announces major improvements in benefits processing and delivery
VA health record system back on track with Michigan deployments
VA announces $7M in rural Veteran transportation services grants
VA announces $16M in disabled Veterans’ adaptive sports grants
Following VA improvements, 100K new Veterans sign up for health care
VA helps Veterans maximize their G.I. Bill education benefits
VA announces $112M grant opportunity to strengthen community-based suicide prevention efforts
VA, DOJ sign agreement to improve care for nation’s most vulnerable Veterans
VA moves to speed up community care appointment scheduling
VA benefits claims backlog under 100K for first time since 2020
VA undoes decades-old wrong and protects Veterans’ Second Amendment rights
VA moves to speed delivery of survivors’ benefits
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