Donald Trump Taps Koch-Backed Nonprofit to Overhaul Department of Veterans Affairs
Lisa Rein and Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — President-elect Trump is leaning on a once-obscure group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch as he seeks to make good on a campaign promise to overhaul veterans’ care he has denounced as a tragic failure.
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) was founded as a political advocacy group just four years ago. It has little connective tissue with other veterans groups, whose membership-heavy organizations have long dominated policy discussions in Washington.
But Concerned Veterans is proving to be an influential force in the incoming Trump administration.
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