What is United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs?
{{Infobox official post | post = United States Secretary | body = Veterans Affairs | flag = Flag of the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.svg | flagborder = yes | flagsize = 130 | flagcaption = Flag of the secretary | insignia = Seal of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.svg | insigniasize = 120 | insigniacaption = Seal of the department | image = Official portrait of Douglas Collins, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.jpeg | incumbent = [[Doug Collins (politician)|Doug Collins]] | incumbentsince = February 5, 2025 | acting = | department = [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]] | style = Mr. Secretary (informal)<br>[[The Honourable#United States|The Honorable]] (formal) | member_of = [[United States Cabinet]] | reports_to = [[President of the United States]] | seat = [[Washington, D.C.]] | appointer = The [[President of the United States]] | appointer_qualified = with [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[advice and consent]] | termlength = No fixed term | constituting_instrument = {{UnitedStatesCode|38|303}} | formation = March 15, 1989 | first = [[Ed Derwinski]] | succession = [[United States presidential line of succession|Seventeenth]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/19|title = 3 U.S. Code § 19 - Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act}}</ref> | deputy = [[United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs]] | salary = [[Executive Schedule|Executive Schedule, level I]] | website = {{url|https://www.va.gov|VA.gov}} }} The '''United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs''' is the head of the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]], the department in charge of taking care of the [[wikt:affair|affairs]] of war [[veteran]]s. The Secretary is a member of the [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and second to last at 17th in the [[United States presidential line of succession|line of succession]] to [[President of the United States|the presidency]] (the position was last until the [[United States Department of Homelan