Wilkie confirmed as head of VA
Fayetteville’s Robert Wilkie was overwhelmingly confirmed as the next head of the Department of Veterans Affairs.The Senate voted Monday afternoon to approve Wilkie’s nomination. Once sworn in, he will oversee the nation’s second-largest government agency, which is charged with caring for nine million veterans and more than 1,700 government-run health care facilities.Wilkie, 55, is the son of a Fort Bragg Army officer who was severely wounded while serving […]
