 Soon after the exposé was published many Veteran's groups including the American Legion expressed their dissatisfaction with non-veteran non-government employees having influence over personnel and policy positions at the VA.In December 2018 senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, called on the Veterans Affairs inspector general to open an investigation into the Mar-a-Lago Crowd.In 2018 the liberal Veteran's advocacy group VoteVets filed a lawsuit against the VA seeking to block the Mar-a-Lago Crowd from continuing to influence policy.