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The
White House • May 29, 2018
The Day
Ahead
President Donald J.
Trump is meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex
Azar and Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Francis Collins in the Oval Office to discuss NIH research
initiatives, including work on opioids.
The heroes
who rest in these hallowed fields
President Trump
visited Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia yesterday
to commemorate Memorial Day and pay tribute to those who lost
their lives defending America. "The heroes who rest in
these hallowed fields—in the cemeteries, battlefields, and
burial grounds near and far—are drawn from the full tapestry
of American life," he said.
Memorial Day is
an occasion to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for
our country. As we remember those warriors, it is also
a moment to consider how we can make life better for all of
America's heroes in uniform, including our veterans.
In the near
future, President Trump will take an important step
toward correcting how the United States treats its veteran
population. He will sign the VA MISSION Act, which will
transform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) into a
high-performing and integrated healthcare system for the 21st
century by putting choice at the core of the VA program.
Watch
President Trump's Memorial Day message.
More:
This
Memorial Day, a win for America's veterans
Taxpayers,
unions, and the Federal workforce
Federal agencies
pay for union negotiators' salaries, so it hurts
taxpayers when bargaining drags on for years. The salaries for
union negotiators totaled $16 million in 2016 alone. And more
than 470 Veterans Affairs employees spend 100 percent of their
duty hours working for a labor union instead of serving
veterans—including 74 full-time nurses.
A new Executive
Order from President Trump will require agencies to
negotiate better union contracts more efficiently and
transparently. It will eliminate years of costly drawn-out
bargaining by encouraging agencies to conclude labor
negotiations in less than a year. Moreover, any Federal
employees authorized to act on behalf of unions will be
permitted to spend no more than 25 percent of their time on
union business.
Learn
more about President Trump's Civil Service reforms that put
taxpayers first.
Photo of
the Day
Official White House
Photo by Andrea Hanks
President Donald
J. Trump participates in a Memorial Day ceremony | May
28, 2018
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