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Derrick Van Orden: “You have a 3.9 billion dollar operational budget and you…”

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

Rep. Derrick Van Orden Calls Out VA's Operational Budget Spending at VA Committee Hearing

Published January 30, 2024 | Video Starts at 00:53

Yes, sir. How much federal funding do these guys get? I'm guessing none. There are very rare instances where they get money. All right, check me out, man. You have a 3.9 billion dollar operational budget and you have 25,000 thousand employees. If I took half of your operational budget, which would be $1.95 billion, and I divided that by the 3,069 counties in the entire nation, we could put nine GS12s in every single county of the entire nation. (00:53–01:00)

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