Senate confirms Shulkin as VA secretary

WASHINGTON - The Senate has confirmed physician David Shulkin to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration.The vote Monday was 100-0.Shulkin is a former Obama administration official who had served as the VA's top health official since 2015.He is the first non-veteran to lead the government's second-largest department.Shulkin has pledged a more modest approach to fixing the VA than had been suggested by Donald Trump on the campaign trail. The 57-year-old physician has ru