← Chronicle · Confirmation · February 4, 2025

Doug Collins Confirmed as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 77–23

Senate vote: 77–23

Doug Collins was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Veterans Affairs on February 4, 2025, by a vote of 77–23, and was sworn in on February 5, 2025.

The mission that started here is the VA portfolio this chronicle tracks under the Veterans hub: benefits, health access, and reform under Collins’s “Veteran first” brief. The full accountability ledger for the VA record lives on this site’s sister property, Dear Doug Collins.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, February 4, 2025, and swearing-in date February 5, 2025 (banked in this site’s research cluster B); Department of Veterans Affairs.