Just a few days ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will use artificial intelligence as a tool aimed at leveraging current systems, data sharing and speeding up veterans' access to federal benefits, employment opportunities and tackling delays caused by outdated government systems.

What exactly is an Executive order

Most of our mainstream media, in the past, along with congressional colleagues has always heavily criticized current and former Presidents of using their executive powers by accusing them of blatantly refusing to work with Congress and taking a do it alone approach which comes off as authoritative in a democratic nation. Not good. 
During President Trump's first term (2017–2021) Signed 220 executive orders over a  four year period, averaging roughly 55 orders per year. During his second term (2025–Present) he signed 281 which seems alarming taking into consideration the above mentioned. An Executive order is a signed, written directive issued by the Executive Branch of our government. The head of the Executive Branch is the President. What an executive order actually does is it direct federal officials and administrative agencies on how to execute, interpret, or administer existing laws and policies. 
So almost every executive order any President has ever signed in history was basically a legal document forcing our government officials in Congress, to do their job or else because executive orders cannot create new laws. It can only enforce existing ones.
The current Executive Order is a law that has already been passed so I have to admit, it brings slight discomfort to know that the head of our Executive Branch has to threaten officials in government with Executive Orders to take care of our active duty personnel and Veterans. Below I took the time to layout the specifics Ina bulleted list.
1. The order directs the Departments of War and Veterans Affairs to modernize how they manage and share service members' records, while also bringing the Department of Labor into efforts to improve career guidance, training and employment opportunities for veterans.
This will ensure that our service members gain the leverage they need in the civilian work force in gaining suitable employment that match their skills.
2. Under the order, the Departments of War and Veterans Affairs are directed to establish systems for sharing personnel files and service treatment records throughout a service member's military career and into their period of receiving VA benefits.
This type of execution may be aimed at reducing benefits fraud by identifying and tracking potential disabilities in it's early stages from enlistment to discharge.
3. The executive order aims to reduce administrative delays that can occur when service members leave the military and begin navigating the VA system.
The impact this order will have on service members is it will allow them to discover and research their benefits rather than having to rely on middle men professional whom usually display a protectionist attitude towards the Veteran's benefits.

What May Have Inspired This Order

Even though the order doesn't guarantee every single Veteran will receive their benefits faster, it does focus on giving federal agencies deadlines to develop and implement AI systems as a tool to reduce delays. The White House has identified a backlog affecting more than 70,000 transitioning service members. The Administration also wasted no time in pointing out that at one point during the Biden Administration the VA's backlog had reached around 378,000. Those administrative claims described different stages of the benefits process.