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By Jenn Rowell
Bob McDonald, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is in Montana this week touring VA facilities and meeting with veterans.
On Tuesday, he participated in a veterans roundtable at the Montana National Guard Joint Force Headquarters in Helena with representatives from veterans service organizations, state veterans agencies, universities and others. The panel was hosted by Sen. Jon Tester, and McDonald came to Montana at Tester’s invitation.
McDonald said some of his goals at the VA include rebuilding trust in the department, improving access to care for veterans, reducing the claims backlog and reorganizing the VA.
The claims backlog is down 68 percent to 193,000, McDonald said. The goal is to completely
end the backlog by the end of the year, he said.
“I’m actually encouraged,” McDonald said of reaching that goal.
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