Robert Wilkie
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Robert Wilkie, the president's nominee for secretary of Veterans Affairs, said he would faithfully implement the VA MISSION Act, but oppose efforts to fully-privatize VA health care.
June 28, 2018 -
The Defense Department is making sure families get the information they need with the Exceptional Families Program.
June 25, 2018 -
Agencies might be paying too much for the identity theft and credit monitoring services they've offered federal employees in the aftermath of data breaches.
May 23, 2018 -
Despite their factions, Democrats and Republicans appear unified in their disdain for the latest Farm Bill.
May 22, 2018 -
The office of the undersecretary for personnel and readiness has five Senate-confirmable positions and up until now, Robert Wilkie’s seat was the only one the Trump administration had managed to fill.
May 22, 2018 -
Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie described the development as one of the biggest IT contracts in federal government.
May 17, 2018 -
The House Veterans Affairs Committee also signed off on a clear oversight process for VA's electronic health record modernization project, plus several other pieces of new legislation.
May 08, 2018 -
Democracy Forward files a lawsuit over the president's decision to name his own acting veterans affairs secretary, rather than install the deputy secretary to lead VA on an interim basis.
May 01, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two organizations are suing the Veterans Affairs Department over the White House's decision to appoint Defense Undersecretary Robert Wilkie to be acting VA secretary.
May 01, 2018 -
A lack of permanent leadership at the Veterans Affairs Department compounding many longstanding challenges at the agency, including a path forward for the VA Choice Program.
April 30, 2018 -
Former VA chief information officer Scott Blackburn, just one week after announcing his immediate resignation, says the agency's ambitious move to the same electronic health record system as the Defense Defense Department is still moving forward, despite a shakeup in leadership.
April 23, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, President Donald Trump presided over the signing of the "One Federal Decision" memorandum of understanding, in which seven of his cabinet secretaries took part.
April 10, 2018 -
Without any leadership appointed from the administration, the personnel and readiness office is unable to set any new policy.
April 09, 2018 -
New acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said he wants VA employees to consider a different kind of customer service philosophy.
April 04, 2018 -
The question of whether former VA Secretary David Shulkin was fired or resigned matters because of ambiguity in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.
April 02, 2018