White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough at a 2013 Pentagon event. (DOD photo)
President-elect Joe Biden named Denis McDonough, who served as White House chief of staff under the Obama administration, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
If confirmed, McDonough will be just the second non-veteran to head the agency, which has more than 300,000 employees and a budget closing in on $250 billion annually. VA delivers health care and benefits to more than 9 million veterans.
McDonough has a reputation as a workhorse and a problem-solver. Among other accomplishments, he is credited with assembling the team that responded to the initial failure of the HealthCare.gov website, the portal constructed to allow consumers to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. He also helped shepherd the Veterans Choice Act to passage. The bill passed in Obama s second term expands options for those in VA care to receive compensation for private sector treatment.
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Chinese Americans who served in WWII honoured by Congress
by Matthew Daly, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 9, 2020 6:32 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 9, 2020 at 6:42 pm EDT
WASHINGTON Seventy-five years after World War II ended, Congress is honouring thousands of Chinese Americans who served the United States in the war, earning citations for heroism including the Medal of Honor despite discrimination that included limits on numbers allowed in the U.S.
Nearly 20,000 people of Chinese ancestry served in the U.S. military during World War II, including about 40 per cent who were not U.S. citizens due to laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. That law made it illegal for Chinese labourers to immigrate to America and limited the Chinese population in the U.S. for more than 60 years.
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