Trump taps former Nevada Senate candidate Brown for VA position

Nevada’s GOP Senate campaigner Sam Brown speaks astatine the Trump rally held astatine Lee’s Family Forum successful Henderson, Nevada connected Thursday, October 31, 2024 Photo by Brian Ramos

Former GOP Senate campaigner Sam Brown volition service successful the Trump administration, the president-elect wrote successful a Truth Social station today.

Brown, who mislaid to incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., successful November, was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump for Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs astatine the Department of Veterans Affairs. The presumption oversees nationalist veterans’ cemeteries, maintaining implicit 150 cemeteries that supply burial services for U.S. veterans and definite members of their family.

Announcing his pick, Trump lauded Brown’s clip successful the subject and said this would beryllium a continuation of his service.

“Sam volition present proceed his work to our Great Nation astatine the VA, wherever helium volition enactment tirelessly to guarantee we enactment America’s Veterans FIRST, and retrieve ALL who served,” Trump said connected Truth Social today.

Brown, a erstwhile Army skipper and Purple Heart recipient, served successful Afghanistan, wherever a roadside weaponry detonated nether his vehicle’s substance vessel and near astir 30% of his assemblage scarred.

"To my chap veterans," Brown said successful a connection connected X. "I've got you." 

When helium tells the communicative of his endurance pursuing the onslaught successful Afghanistan, helium often shares however a chap worker said that operation to him and "I've got you" became a cardinal constituent of his messaging during the campaign. 

The Senate volition beryllium liable for confirming Cabinet nominations, including the presumption Brown is being considered for.

If the Senate confirms the nominations, Brown volition service alongside Trump's VA prime to pb the agency, erstwhile Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins.