{"id":69781,"date":"2017-01-12T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69781"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:25:02","slug":"david-shulkin-trumps-va-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69781","title":{"rendered":"David Shulkin; Trump&#8217;s VA pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/trump-va-sec-shulkin\">Military Times<\/a> reports that Trump&#8217;s nomination to head the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department is Dr David Shulkin, currently the VA Under Secretary for Health since June 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe\u2019s fantastic,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe will do a truly great job. One of the commitments I made is that we\u2019re going to straighten out the whole situation for veterans. Our veterans have been treated horribly \u2026 I think you\u2019ll be very impressed with David and the job he does.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by Trump\u2019s transition team, Shulkin called the nomination an honor.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President-elect Trump&#8217;s commitment to caring for our veterans is unquestionable, and he is eager to support the best practices for care and provide our Veterans Affairs\u2019 teams with the resources they need to improve health outcomes,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are both eager to begin reforming the areas in our Veterans Affairs system that need critical attention, and do it in a swift, thoughtful and responsible way.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, if there is an agency of the Executive Department that doesn&#8217;t need a promotion from within, it&#8217;s the VA. I&#8217;d have to think that the cultural reform the agency needs isn&#8217;t going to happen with a hold over appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Times reports that Trump&#8217;s nomination to head the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department is Dr David Shulkin, &hellip; <a title=\"David Shulkin; Trump&#8217;s VA pick\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69781\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Shulkin; Trump&#8217;s VA pick<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}