Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’

New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’

The Veterans Affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of “anti-Christian bias” to a newly established taskforce, as part of Donald Trump’s push to reshape government policy on religious expression.

VA secretary Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration’s “treatment of Christians”.