Wilkie's VA nomination raises more short-term department leadership questions

Military Times: Now that President Donald Trump has announced Robert Wilkie as his pick for the next permanent secretary of Veterans Affairs, the immediate leadership question facing the department is who the next acting VA secretary will be.

On Friday, during an unrelated event at the White House, President Donald Trump announced that he would tap Wilkie — the department’s interim head for the last 51 days — for the vacant Cabinet post. The timing of the announcement seemed to shock Wilkie, who had been among a short list of candidates for the post.

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