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30 June 2022

Washington Post | Senators kill sweeping plan to reshape sprawling VA health-care system

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Darin Selnick, a senior adviser for Concerned Veterans for America who led efforts at VA and later the Trump White House to create the commission, said the Biden administration left VA to issue recommendations with no structure to vet them, opening the process to political resistance.

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“Anytime a legislator hears they might close a facility in their district they go ballistic,” Selnick said, “but if you had had a commission in place that wouldn’t have mattered.” He emphasized that VA’s plan “was only a set of recommendations” that could have been changed

Stars and Stripes | Last remaining WWII Medal of Honor recipient, Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams, dies at 98

Associated Press | Supreme Court upholds state government work protections for reservists

Associated Press | US boosting military presence in Europe amid Russia threat

NBC News | U.S. military hasn’t implemented measure to help service members seek mental health care

Stars and Stripes | DOD inspector general to evaluate Pentagon’s intelligence sharing about the Ukraine war

Washington Post | Companies in China are aiding Russia’s military, U.S. alleges

The Hill | Ukraine secures largest prisoner swap since start of invasion

Breaking Defense | Gulf states willing to host Israeli sensors for air-defense network: Sources

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