Sarah Palin is under consideration for secretary of veterans affairs, a close Palin aide and a top Donald Trump transition official told ABC News. 
 
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 The Palin aide said that Palin recently told Trump transition officials, "I feel as though the megaphone I have been provided can be used in a productive and positive way to help those desperately in need." 
 
 The Department of Veterans Affairs is the largest government agency, with over 300,000 federal employees and a budget of $182 billion for 2017. 
 
 Palin's son-in-law and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer posted a SarahPAC video to his Facebook page earlier this week, with excerpts from a speech she gave that heavily focuses on her work with veterans and her connection to the community. Her eldest son, Track Palin, served in Iraq in 2008. The video, which is not new, seems to clearly show her interest in the position, and in he speech she hits the VA "bureaucracy," saying it is "killing our vets." 
 
 The speech includes Sarah Palin's ideas on reforming the VA, including improved health care, using military skills to return to the workforce and securing their benefits. The speech also includes a criticism of Barack Obama. 
 
 "Stop blaming the victim and wake up, Mr. President," she says. "While Christians bow our heads to pray for you, radical Islamists want to cut off your head. The only thing standing between us and savages, it's the red white and blue, it's the United States military. And if you love freedom, thank a vet. Thank them. Honor them." 
 
 Palin, the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, has not been to Trump Tower in New York City to meet with the president-elect, but she was one of his earliest and highest-profile endorsers. The Palin aide said she has had discussions with the transition team, and the top transition official confirms this. 
 
 Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is also in the running for the VA position. He visited Trump Tower on Nov. 21 and told reporters he had a "great meeting" with the president-elect about the post. 
 
 "We obviously spoke about my passion and about his passion, which are veterans and veterans' issues," Brown said, noting that he has worked on veterans' issues since serving in the Massachusetts state legislature. "The toughest job in the Cabinet is to lead the VA, because while it has so many angels working there, it has so many great problems as well." 
 
 Other names that have surfaced for the position include Rep. Jeff Miller and Gen. Keith Kellogg. 
 
 A former Alaska governor, Palin has also been talked about for energy secretary and secretary of the interior. Earlier this month, she posted on Facebook about her “Drill, baby, drill” energy philosophy. 
 
 "NOW is the time to shut off the Saudi oil cartel flow valve and develop our own God-given natural resources. The only excuse not to become energy independent is a political excuse," she wrote. 
 
 The same day, she wrote about her family's connection to Native Alaskans — who are significantly affected by Department of the Interior policies. Her husband, Todd Palin, is part Native Alaskan. 
 
 Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign CEO and the president-elect's pick for chief strategist, is close with Palin. In 2011 he made a documentary about her titled "The Undefeated." 
 
 After ABC News reported on her being under consideration for VA secretary, she posted a message on Facebook that she then tweeted, writing in part, "We should be grateful we'll soon have a commander-in-chief who will champion our vets and honor the promises our nation made." 
 
 We should be grateful we'll soon have a commander-in-chief who will champion our vets and honor the promises our... https://t.co/lb5wdrlrWu — Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) November 30, 2016 
 
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 Sarah Palin is openly lobbying to be head of Veteran Affairs in the Trump Administration 
 
 In a post on Facebook the former Alaska governor raved about Donald Trump, linked to an ABC story that she was being considered for the post and included a message from her medal of honor recipient son-in-law. 
 
 Dakota Meyer is married to Palin’s daughter Bristol Palin and received the medal of honor in 2011. 
 
 According to the ABC report that Palin was promoting, she offered herself up to Trump’s transition officials but the chances of her getting the position are slim. 
 
 Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is a more likely candidate for the post and has met with the president-elect over the position. 
 
 "He’s obviously going to take my application, or interest, under consideration. I’m glad that he called," Brown told reporters earlier this month. "I think I’m the best person, but there are some tremendous people out there and I don’t look at it as a competition." 
 
 Transition officials have said that in addition to Brown, former Texas governor Rick Perry and Florida Congressman Jeff Miller, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, are also being considered for the post. The officials have requested anonymity to be able to speak freely. 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2gLT5qS ||||| Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with a post on her public Facebook account appeared Wednesday to confirm a report that she’s under consideration by President-elect Donald Trump to become secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
 
 The post included a highly stylized video produced by SARAHPAC, her political action committee, about the former vice presidential candidate’s ideas on how to fix the troubled agency, and a link to the ABC news report that first broke the news of her vetting by the Trump transition team. ABC said that both a Palin aide and the Trump transition team confirmed she’s under consideration to run the VA. 
 
 “We should be grateful we’ll soon have a commander-in-chief who will champion our vets and honor the promises our nation made; a pro-private sector individual who surely understands bigger government is NOT the answer; a President who promised to drain the swamp and clean up all government corruption … all things our vets and active duty troops deserve,” Palin wrote, followed by an American flag emoji. 
 
 Palin, who unsuccessfully ran on a ticket with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 2008, would take the helm of an agency marked by scandal and crisis. The VA also stands at a policy crossroads, with many lawmakers in favor of allowing veterans to more widely use private doctors and hospitals, a plan vehemently opposed by many Democrats and some veterans groups. In 2014, lawmakers scrambled to expand access to VA health care when it was discovered that some veterans seeking care were waiting so long that they died before seeing a doctor. 
 
 Palin, who is known for her brash speaking style, if tapped and confirmed would also inherit a position in which current VA Secretary Robert McDonald received considerable blowback for a public statement made about wait times. McDonald was excoriated by lawmakers and advocacy groups for comparing VA wait times to lines at a Disney theme park. 
 
 Palin’s video lays out three major platforms for what she wants to see from federal veterans’ care: allow veterans to receive care in the private market through vouchers, allow veterans re-entering the civilian workforce to use military certifications in place of civilian ones for job skills, and maintain veterans’ retirement benefits. 
 
 Those changes won’t come without a price. For example, lawmakers are currently grappling with how to extend a $10 billion private care program that expires in August 2017 or whenever the money allocated to it runs out. Recently, CQ reported that the program, while designed to provide a new route of access for patients facing distance issues or long wait times, was mostly serving veterans who couldn’t get the care they wanted at a VA facility. That’s triggered questions about whether the program is being administered in the way it was intended. 
 
 There’s also a slew of concerns from House authorizers about the way the VA is spending money on a construction project in Denver and reports of lavish art purchases at medical facilities — issues which were the subject of a federal subpoena issued by House lawmakers in September.
– Does Donald Trump have a big job lined up for loyal supporter Sarah Palin? The former Alaska governor is a candidate to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, a Palin aide and a Trump transition team official tell ABC News, which notes that the VA is the largest government agency, with more than 300,000 employees. USA Today reports that Palin appears to be very keen: In a Facebook post Wednesday, she praised Trump as a "commander-in-chief who will champion our vets." She also shared a video from her SarahPAC political action committee on her ideas to fix the agency's problems, along with an endorsement from son-in-law Dakota Meyer, a Medal of Honor recipient who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Chicago Tribune reports. A spokesman for Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan tells Alaska Dispatch News that the senator would like to see Palin get the job. "Alaska has more veterans per capita than any other state, making this position critically important for our state," he says. Palin would be the first non-veteran in the role, though son Track Palin is an Iraq veteran. ABC notes that former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who spent 35 years in the Army National Guard, is also being considered for the post and, unlike Palin, has visited Trump Tower for meetings. Rep. Jeff Miller and Gen. Keith Kellogg have also been mentioned in connection to the role.