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Derrick Van Orden: “If they're never going to evict a veteran because they're…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Rep. Van Orden Calls for Accountability of VA Bureaucrats in VA Full Committee Oversight Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 02:16

First of all, the lending institution has to be made whole, right? So where does that money come from? I don't know. And then If they're never going to evict a veteran because they're not who is delinquent on their loans, that means that the United States government has private citizens living in government controlled real estate without paying for anything. And they tried that once. It was in the Soviet Union. And that's, that's where we're marching to the bureaucracy. The state of bureaucracy is what we're living in. (02:16–02:21)

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Asserts that veterans may live in government-controlled real estate without payment if not evicted for loan delinquency.

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