{"id":32012,"date":"2025-01-31T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/trump-va-pick-doug-collins-advances-to-full-senate-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:00:27","slug":"trump-va-pick-doug-collins-advances-to-full-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/trump-va-pick-doug-collins-advances-to-full-senate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump VA pick Doug Collins advances to full Senate vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump&#8217;<\/a>s choice to head up the Department of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, passed a Senate cloture vote Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 83-13.<\/p>\n<p>He will proceed to a full vote on the Senate floor for confirmation, which he is expected to easily secure with a strong bipartisan showing.<\/p>\n<p>A former U.S. congressman, the Gainesville, Georgia native also serves as a chaplain in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/military\/air-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Air Force Reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collins was not expected to face a difficult confirmation fight and saw bipartisan support in his committee hearing, with the lone exception of Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, who voted against him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hawaiis-hirono-only-senator-vote-no-collins-continuing-partisan-streak-hearings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>HAWAII&#8217;S HIRONO ONLY SENATOR TO VOTE NO ON COLLINS, CONTINUING PARTISAN STREAK AT HEARINGS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If confirmed as VA secretary, Collins would be tasked with overseeing a beleaguered system of healthcare and benefits for the nation&#8217;s veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Long wait times to see providers, lack of access to community care, inadequate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health support<\/a> and budget shortfalls are just a few of many problems that have plagued secretaries past in both Republican and Democratic administrations.<\/p>\n<p><i>Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s choice to head up the Department of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, passed a Senate cloture vote Thursday night.\u00a0 The vote was 83-13. He will proceed to a full vote on the Senate floor for confirmation, which he is expected to easily secure with a strong bipartisan showing. A former U.S. congressman, the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump VA pick Doug Collins advances to full Senate vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/trump-va-pick-doug-collins-advances-to-full-senate-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump VA pick Doug Collins advances to full Senate vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}