Policy Priorities
America First Warfighters is focused on advancing policies in the areas veterans care about most:
Veterans’ Healthcare & Benefits Reform: Improving the quality of veterans’ care, reducing VA bureaucracy, expanding patient choice, and ensuring veterans receive the benefits they have earned.
Military Readiness: Strengthening recruitment and retention, restoring merit-based leadership, ensuring efficient and appropriate defense budgets, and ensuring our military remains the most capable fighting force in the world.
Veteran Integration Support: Advancing practical solutions that help veterans integrate successfully into civilian life and access the resources they need to thrive.
America First Warfighters is a coalition of veterans, military families, policy leaders, and grassroots advocates working to improve the lives of veterans, active duty service members, and military families and strengthen America’s military. Warfighters works to advance policies that matter to veterans, engage veterans in the policy process, and build a nationwide grassroots network to champion America First solutions across the Nation.
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Latest
News Release
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July 7, 2026
AFPI Releases The Veterans First Agenda
This week, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new issue brief, The Veterans First Agenda: Expanding Access and Improving Care for America’s Heroes, under the America First Warfighters Coalition. This brief outlines reforms to improve veterans’ healthcare by expanding access, strengthening patient choice, and increasing accountability across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system.
Op-Ed
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July 4, 2026
America 250: Renewing Our Commitment to Those Who Serve
Issue Brief
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July 3, 2026
The Veterans First Agenda: Expanding Access and Improving Care for America’s Heroes
The America First Policy Institute’s (AFPI) Veterans First Agenda is foundational to the America First Warfighters’ work to keep America’s promise to the brave men and women who have worn the uniform, completed their service, and returned to civilian life. Crafted by policy experts with deep experience in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the Department of War, the Veterans First Agenda will advance the interests of veterans and their families.
News Release
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July 2, 2026