Policy Priorities
America First Warfighters is focused on advancing policies in the areas veterans care about most:
Veterans’ Healthcare & Benefits Reform: Improving the quality of veterans’ care, reducing VA bureaucracy, expanding patient choice, and ensuring veterans receive the benefits they have earned.
Military Readiness: Strengthening recruitment and retention, restoring merit-based leadership, ensuring efficient and appropriate defense budgets, and ensuring our military remains the most capable fighting force in the world.
Veteran Integration Support: Advancing practical solutions that help veterans integrate successfully into civilian life and access the resources they need to thrive.
America First Warfighters is a coalition of veterans, military families, policy leaders, and grassroots advocates working to improve the lives of veterans, active duty service members, and military families and strengthen America’s military. Warfighters works to advance policies that matter to veterans, engage veterans in the policy process, and build a nationwide grassroots network to champion America First solutions across the Nation.
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September 15, 2026
Suicide Prevention Is a Mission We All Share
September is Suicide Prevention Month — a time to recognize a difficult reality facing our military community and, more importantly, to reaffirm a simple commitment: no service member, veteran, or military family member should ever feel that they have to face their darkest moments alone.
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September 14, 2026
AFPI Recognizes National Suicide Prevention Month, Applauds Trump Administration Steps to Help Veterans
The America First Warfighters released the following statement in recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month and in support of the Trump Administration's bold actions to expand mental health treatment options for veterans:
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August 26, 2026
America First Warfighters Statement on the 5th Anniversary of the Abbey Gate Bombing
Today, America First Warfighters marks the 5th anniversary of the attack at the Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate, remembering and honoring the 13 U.S. service members who lost their lives during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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August 21, 2026
No, U.S. Service Members Aren’t Victims. They Are Warriors, and This Administration Has the Pulse.
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has issued the following statement on the strength and morale of America’s warfighters from Amber Smith, AFPI Senior Advisor for America First Warfighters. Smith is a former U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot and air mission commander in the 101st Airborne Division who flew two combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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August 7, 2026
AFPI Commemorates Purple Heart Day by Honoring Those Who Defend America
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) proudly commemorates Purple Heart Day by honoring the brave American service members who have been wounded or killed in defense of our Nation.