White House officials said VA financial assistance programs do not violate rules banning diversity and inclusion efforts.

Virginia’s governor has become a close ally of Trump and defended his plan to freeze federal spending as other officials reeled from changing guidance.

The Trump administration reversed its policy to freeze grants and loans while officials evaluated whether spending met the president's priorities.

As Gov. Glenn Youngkin was assuring Virginians on Tuesday that direct federal aid would not be suspended as part of the Trump administration funding freeze, an internal memo obtained by The Mercury shows that his office was aware of potential problems.

Veterans Affairs officials issued guidance Thursday exempting more than 300,000 department health care posts from the White House’s federal hiring freeze, labeling them as essen

Agencies are starting to take action against DEI-tasked employees and pass lists of those workers on to OPM and the White House.

At least 60 Veterans Affairs employees have been placed on administrative leave following the closure of multiple diversity, equity and inclusion offices across the department, pa

VA hires about 40,000 new workers every year to maintain operations at VA medical sites. It's unclear if that can continue under Trump's hiring halt.

The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of the Veterans Health Administration's roughly 400,000-employee workforce.

When Donald Trump arrived in Washington in 2017 on the eve of his first inauguration, he was a stranger to most in town.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan, on Tuesday said the pause on federal funding won't affect Veterans Affairs programs. A White House directive ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans by 5 p.m. Tuesday, though shortly before it was to go into effect a federal judge blocked it until Monday to allow time for the inevitable legal battle.

President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.”