Trump Taps Koch Brothers Nonprofit to Overhaul Veterans Affairs

President-elect Trump is leaning on a once-obscure group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch as he seeks to make good on a campaign promise to overhaul veterans’ care he has denounced as a tragic failure.

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) was founded as a political advocacy group just four years ago. It has little connective tissue with other veterans groups, whose membership-heavy organizations have long dominated policy discussions in Washington.

But Concerned Veterans is proving to be an influential force in the incoming Trump administration. The leading candidates to run the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs, the second-largest federal agency, have close ties to the group.