{"id":149846,"date":"2018-07-24T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149846"},"modified":"2018-07-24T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:41:39","slug":"wilkie-to-be-secretary-of-veterans-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149846","title":{"rendered":"Wilkie to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-149847\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WilkieRobert-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WilkieRobert-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WilkieRobert-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WilkieRobert-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WilkieRobert.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Senate on Monday confirmed Pentagon official Robert Wilkie to be secretary of Veterans Affairs, charged with delivering on President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign promises to fire bad VA employees and steer more patients to the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkie won approval on a bipartisan vote of 86-9, securing the backing of many Democrats after insisting at his confirmation hearing that he will not privatize the government&#8217;s second-largest department. It was a moment of respite from the sharp political divisions engulfing Trump&#8217;s other nominees in the final months before congressional midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkie is Trump&#8217;s third pick for the job in 18 months. The longtime public official says he will &#8220;shake up complacency&#8221; at VA, which has struggled with long waits in providing medical treatment to millions of veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Senate on Monday confirmed Pentagon official Robert Wilkie to be secretary of Veterans Affairs, charged with delivering on President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign promises to fire bad VA employees and steer more patients to the private sector. Wilkie won approval on a bipartisan vote of 86-9, securing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149849,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149846\/revisions\/149849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}