Taking Care of Our Veterans, Servicemembers, and their Families

As the daughter of a World War II veteran, Jacky has deep respect for the sacrifice America’s veterans made to serve our country and defend our freedoms. She will always work to ensure that our nation’s veterans get the care and benefits they have earned.

In the Senate, Jacky has delivered housing assistance for homeless veterans, helped pass landmark legislation to expand VA health care for all veterans exposed to toxins during their service such as burn pits, Agent Orange, and radiation, and secured the first-ever dedicated Veterans Business Outreach Center in Nevada to help veterans start small businesses. Her bipartisan legislation to strengthen VA cybersecurity and protect veterans’ personal and medical information from bad actors was signed into law in 2022, and she has continued to champion bipartisan bills to help student veterans succeed in college, assist veterans with landing new jobs or starting their own small businesses when they return to civilian life, and address the veterans’ mental health crisis by increasing suicide prevention resources and programs. She is fighting red tape that threatens veterans’ access to emergency medical transportation, and she recently secured a win to expand access to VA telehealth services. Jacky is also supporting key projects for Nevada veterans by working to bring a new VA hospital to Reno and helping secure federal funding for Nevada’s first-ever national veterans cemetery in Elko.

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Jacky has made it a top priority to support Nevada servicemembers and military families. That’s why she secured housing assistance for junior enlisted servicemembers who receive orders to move off base so that they don’t have to cover their moving costs out of pocket — when they can least afford it. She has gotten bipartisan bills signed into law to address toxic PFAS chemicals on military bases, give the National Guard and Reserves greater access to active duty opportunities, and ensure Gold Star spouses keep their survivor benefits.

Jacky has also secured critical commitments and funding for Nevada defense installations. She spent years working with the military and local stakeholders to successfully craft and pass modernizations of the Fallon Range Training Complex at Naval Air Station Fallon and the Nevada Test and Training Range for Nellis Air Force Base. She also secured Nevada’s first certified small arms training range for Army National Guard and Reserve soldiers so that they will no longer have to travel out-of-state in order to satisfy their annual weapons qualification. In addition, Jacky has been a tireless advocate to bring more capable aircrafts to the Nevada Air National Guard so that they have safer and more effective firefighting capabilities as they carry out their dangerous mission fighting wildland fires in Nevada and throughout the West. Because of her work, Jacky has been honored with the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) Charles Dick Medal of Merit and the the G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Eagle Award by the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States.