VA marks 100 days of putting Veterans first

April 29 marked a significant moment in the Trump Administration as it marked 100 days of the President’s second term. During this time, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched a host of major reforms to refocus the department on its core mission: providing the best possible care and services to Veterans, families, caregivers and survivors.

VA Secretary Doug Collins discussed the progress the VA has made, saying, “One hundred days into the second Trump administration, and VA is no longer content with poor results. Under President Trump’s leadership, we have already stripped away many of the costly distractions that were coming between VA beneficiaries and the benefits they have earned. And we’re looking to make even more historic reforms to better serve our Veterans.”

Among the VA’s accomplishments during the first 100 days include:

-Providing Veterans the health care choices they were promised under the MISSION Act

-Opening six new health care clinics around the nation

-Taking thousands of employees off of remote work and bringing them back to the office, where they can work as a team to better serve Veterans

-Phasing out treatment for gender dysphoria and directing all savings to helping paralyzed Veterans and amputees

-Processing record numbers of disability claims

-Ended DEI at the department, stopping more than $14 million in wasteful DEI spending

-Redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars from non-mission-critical efforts to health care, benefits and services that directly support VA beneficiaries

-Accelerating the deployment of VA’s electronic health record system.

“The department has also refocused on its core mission and key priorities, like the implementation of VA’s electronic health record modernization program. The program seamlessly manages data exchange between VA and the Department of Defense, improving customer service and convenience for VA and DOD patients. This task has never been easy, but the program was nearly dormant for almost two years under the last administration. In March, we picked up the slack and announced VA would bring the system to nine additional medical facilities in 2026, with deployment at all VA medical facilities as early as 2031,” Collins wrote in an op-ed to the DC Journal.

“We will not stop working to put veterans first. They are our customers, and their satisfaction is what matters most to us,” he wrote, adding: “We will reform the department to make it work better for America’s veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors – that I can promise you.”