4/27/2017

TRUMP EXEC ORDERS/VA/VETS: ‘Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection’
The order is aimed at improving accountability within the Department of Veterans Affairs, which found itself at the center of a 2014 controversy in which dozens of veterans reportedly died while on the wait list for medical care. The order directs Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin to create the ‘Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection’ in the department within 45 days.
The office will be charged with investigating wrongdoing within the department and terminating any VA employee who fails to ‘carry out his or her duties on behalf of veterans.’
‘We will always stand with those who stood for freedom and who stood for us. They protected us, they made it all possible, and now we’re going to protect and take care of them,’ Trump said at the signing.”

-Avalon Zoppo, Amanda Proenca Santos, and Jackson Hudgins, “Here’s the Full List of Donald Trump’s Executive Orders,” NBC News, Oct 17, 2017 11:58am