Robert Wilkie: “When an American veteran comes to VA, it is not up to the veteran to employ a team of lawyers to get VA to say yes.”

While all Executive Branch departments and agencies must carry out their missions without consideration or influence of partisan politics, I have said in my visits across the department - visits that in the last five weeks cover ten VA…

This is an example of American First not meaning America Alone and nothing more.

There is nothing more important, and there is nothing more tragic, and you have my commitment that as long as I am privileged to be part of the VA team, that will continue to be the case.

Now more than ever we are seeing the need for DoD and VA to work together to provide quality care for the Nation's Service members and Veterans.