Derrick Van Orden: “We're spending $3.2 billion $90,000 per homeless veteran.”

“We strive for a 90% employment rate and we are currently in the high 80s in terms of filling our vacancy. Let's say you had 100 employees in 2022. Now you have like 110 or so. Okay, so we're. We're spending $3.2 billion $90,000 per homeless veteran. You've increased your manning your administrative staff from 2022 and since then the veterans homeless rate has increased so that that dog does not hunt. This is not okay.” (05:45–05:50)

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