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Undated: David Jonathon Shulkin (born July 22, 1959) is an American physician and former government official. In 2017, Shulkin became the 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs and served under President Donald Trump. He served as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 2015 until 2017, appointed by President Barack Obama. On March 28, 2018, President Trump dismissed Shulkin from his position and announced that Physician to the President Ronny Jackson would be nominated to be Shulkin's successor, although Jackson's nomination was withdrawn on April 26, 2018, after allegations surfaced of misconduct and mismanagement while serving in the White House.[2][3][4][5] He was succeeded by Under Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shulkin
-- 2017 --
March 20: Trump Picks David Shulkin, VA's Second In Command, to Lead the Department
https://www.countable.us/articles/214-trump-picks-david-shulkin-va-s-second-command-lead-department
May 16: Federal employee groups say Senate VA bill does little to tackle entrenched accountability problems
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-affairs/2017/05/federal-employee-groups-say-senate-va-bill-does-little-to-tackle-entrenched-accountability-problems/
June 21: By most accounts, Dr. David J. Shulkin, the secretary of veterans affairs, is a reasonable man thrust into an impossible situation.
His job is to reform an overburdened medical system — one with a quirky bureaucratic culture all its own — while bolstering a scandal-racked department regularly used as a punching bag by a do-nothing Congress, in the employ of a mercurial president with no prior experience in government.
“Every day I’m being asked to do things that are firsts for me,” Shulkin told Task & Purpose in an exclusive sit-down interview this month in his office at VA headquarters, overlooking the White House. “Challenging myself to step outside my comfort boundaries is clearly part of the job description.”
Add to those heavy responsibilities his obvious enthusiasm and knack for media appearances, and it’s easy to see why almost everyone in Washington loves Shulkin right now.
https://taskandpurpose.com/david-shulkin-trump-veterans-affairs-profile
August 3: President Trump and Secretary Shulkin Announce Veteran Telehealth Initiatives
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-secretary-shulkin-announce-veteran-telehealth-initiatives/
-- 2018 --
February 16: The Trump Administration Goes to War — With Itself — Over the VA
Even before a searing report put the job of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin at risk, some White House staffers were pushing a health care agenda at odds with his. The infighting has left vets frustrated, Congress confused — and a key piece of legislation stalemated.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-goes-to-war-over-the-va
March 9: Shulkin cancels meetings with Trump appointees amid VA strife
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377575-shulkin-cancels-meetings-with-trump-appointees-amid-va-strife-report
March 12: David Shulkin Makes Late Play for Most Corrupt Trump Cabinet Member
The paranoia-soaked V.A. chief has the White House on edge as a corruption scandal and an inter-office cold war threaten to engulf the agency.
Shulkin has butted heads with Trump appointees at the V.A. from the outset, but the conflict came to a head after an inspector general’s report found “serious derelictions” in the way Shulkin’s office had handled a trip to Europe, among them allegedly doctoring e-mails to allow the V.A. head to justify bringing his wife along. The report brought Shulkin’s foes into the open, where they have demanded his firing; last month, The Washington Post reported that, in mid-February, one of Shulkin’s senior aides directly lobbied Republican staffers in Congress to demand the resignation of Shulkin and his deputy secretary, Thomas Bowman, an effort that they rebuffed. Shulkin then told Politico that he had the green light from the White House to crack down on “subversion,” adding that those who had defied him “won’t be working in my operation . . . those who crossed the line in the past are going to have to be accountable for those decisions,” he added.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/david-shulkin-makes-late-play-for-most-corrupt-trump-cabinet-member
March 26: White House says Trump has confidence in Shulkin 'at this point in time'
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/white-house-says-trump-has-confidence-shulkin-point-time
March 28: Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is out, Trump announces by tweet
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/28/david-shulkin-veterans-affairs-secretary-forced-out-john-kelly/346741002/
March 28: Ronny Jackson in as VA secretary
Jackson, who is an active duty Navy physician, was nominated last week for a military promotion by the President. He was appointed as physician to the president by President Barack Obama in 2013, after having served on the White House medical team since 2006. He continued in that role after Trump came into office and quickly developed a bond with the President.
"He's like central casting -- like a Hollywood star," Trump told donors during a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago last month, according to audio of his remarks obtained by CNN.
Jackson took on an unusually public role for a presidential physician earlier this year when he took to the White House briefing room to field questions about Trump's health, just days after questions about Trump's mental fitness for office were raised.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/politics/shulkin-va-jackson/index.html
March 29: Donald Trump says David Shulkin out of sync with agenda on private sector veterans care
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/29/donald-trump-firing-va-secretary-says-he-fired-david-shulkin-give-veterans-choice-private-sector-car/470598002/
March 29:
The fired Veterans Affairs secretary claims he was politically knifed: ‘It should not be this hard to serve your country.’
Instead of disappearing into obscurity like others who were summarily fired by President Donald Trump, Shulkin is using his dismissal as an opportunity to step into the spotlight. Freed from the constraints of serving in the Trump administration, Shulkin is publicly — and loudly — raising red flags about what he sees as a sinister plot to privatize veterans’ health care.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/29/david-shulkin-responds-firing-491272
March 29: Shulkin: Trump didn’t mention firing in call hours before he was fired
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/29/trump-shulkin-firing-tweet-call-492412
March 29: The Real Reason David Shulkin Was Fired, According to David Shulkin
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/the-real-reason-david-shulkin-was-fired-according-to-david-shulkin/
April 1: David Shulkin Disputes White House Resignation Claim: ‘I Had No Intention Of Giving Up’
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-shulkin-disputes-white-house_us_5ac0e7aae4b0a47437abcbfd
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