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Derrick Van Orden: “Since the fiscal year 2020 there's been 39,904 extensions…”

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

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden Chairs Economic Opportunity Subcommittee Hearing on the VR&E Program

Published | Video Starts at 04:10

Yeah, the cost for a medical school, just to put this in context, is about $355,000 to become a physician. Just throwing that out there. In fact, the VA told us last month, we had a meeting yesterday that Since the fiscal year 2020 there's been 39,904 extensions that were approved and only 59 of the requests for extensions were denied. And that is truly absurd. It's statistically impossible that all of those extensions were appropriate. I'm looking forward to hearing from the VA about the real life examples, their constituents or they're that constitute granting a waiver. (04:10–04:22)

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