Accomplishments

President Trump reformed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to improve care, choice, and employee accountability, and over 10,000 federal workers who failed to give our warriors the quality and timely care they so richly deserve were fired.

President Trump approved the VA Choice and VA MISSION Acts to give our heroes the permanent choice to see their local doctor and receive care at non-VA facilities.

During the Trump administration, 3 in 4 veterans saw improvements at their local VA, including shorter wait times and expanded community care options, resulting in historic VA satisfaction levels.

President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 and improved the efficiency of the VA, setting record numbers of appeals decisions.

President Trump expanded access to telehealth services for veterans, including through the VA’s “Anywhere to Anywhere” program.

President Trump formed the PREVENTS Task Force to fight the tragedy of Veteran suicide as well as securing $9.5 billion for mental health services in 2020.

President Trump’s Forever G.I. Bill allowed veterans to pursue education at any point in their lives and his administration’s vast expansion of job training resulted in over half a million veterans finding jobs.

President Trump signed legislation ensuring no reduction of VA education benefits under the GI Bill for online distance learning.

President Trump ordered that federal student debt for America’s totally and permanently disabled veterans be automatically forgiven.

President Trump signed and implemented the HAVEN Act to ensure that Veterans who’ve declared bankruptcy don’t lose their disability payments.

President Trump decreased veteran homelessness, and education benefits, and achieved historically low veteran unemployment.

President Trump placed over 600,000 veterans into employment through American Job Center services.

President Trump enrolled over 500,000 transitioning service members in over 20,000 Department of Labor employment workshops.

President Trump’s administration placed nearly 40,000 homeless veterans into employment through the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program.