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      The United States secretary of veterans affairs is a US presidential cabinet position tasked with overseeing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The agency is responsible for providing American veterans and their families with healthcare services, benefits, and access to national cemeteries. The predecessors of the VA have been serving veterans since the time of the Revolutionary War (1775–1783); however, the agency was only elevated to cabinet status in 1989. The secretary of veterans affairs is in charge of one of the largest federal agencies, with a 2023 workforce of 450,000. In 2022, the VA served more than 9 million of the estimated 18.1 million American veterans.