ARLINGTON, Va. – Today, Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) unveiled its 2025 policy priorities with a focus on making America stronger and more secure by supporting a prudent foreign policy, protecting the economic foundations of our strength, and empowering those who have served our country by transforming veterans’ health care.
To achieve these goals, CVA is utilizing the full force of its grassroots army, partnering with principled leaders willing to engage to advance effective, nonpartisan policies, and continuing to incentivize lawmakers to put principled policy before divisive partisanship.
John Byrnes, CVA’s Strategic Director, had this to say about the organization’s 2025 priorities:
“Our 2025 policy agenda renews CVA’s original commitment to fighting for a freer and more secure America – a nation where every person is empowered to live their American Dream. This vision requires a strong economy focused on growth and energy abundance, a foreign policy rooted in realism and restraint, as well as robust government reform and accountability, including at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
As veterans, we know economic growth provides the foundation for American prosperity at home and undergirds our strength abroad. Many of us have participated in long, unending and wasteful wars where our sons and daughters and brothers and sisters are put at risk by a national security establishment that consistently overcommits our military and continues to advocate for new alliances like Saudi Arabia and Ukraine, where there is more risk than likely benefit.
We understand the cost of war on a deeply personal level. We have lost friends in battle and here at home where the invisible wounds, left untreated, feed a veterans’ suicide epidemic. We see fellow veterans facing life-threatening barriers at a broken VA health care system.
These are the reasons that motivate our solutions. Through a tax code and regulatory system that promotes growth, the United States can remain internationally competitive and economically capable of defending its vital interests. It’s critical that we ensure our alliances benefit America. We must end our endless wars and get our troops out of harm’s way in countries like Iraq and Syria where we have no clear mission. And equally importantly, we must keep faith with our veterans, ensuring health care in a timely manner from the provider they choose, a model for all American health care, unlike the VA’s current one size fits all approach. We know that when veterans are empowered to live their best lives, they continue serving in their communities and drive positive change for America.”