In another surprise, Trump names Wilkie as the next VA secretary

Military Times: President Donald Trump on Friday named acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie his latest pick to be the next permanent head of that department in the administration’s latest attempt to bring stability to the second-largest federal bureaucracy.

The surprise announcement — at a prison reform summit at the White House — appeared to catch even Wilkie off guard. Trump introduced Wilkie in a line of other Cabinet secretaries by saying that “I will be informing him in a little while, he doesn’t know it yet, that we are going to be putting his name up for nomination to be Secretary of the Veterans Administration.”

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