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Doug Collins: “Corps of Engineers does not want to be here. They do not…”

Featuring: Doug Collins, Republican | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | National

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Congresswoman Escobar Discusses Military Construction with VA Secretary Collins

Published | Video Starts at 04:55

And that is that we put the Corps of Engineers in the middle of major projects after Aurora, which Aurora was a debacle. But we put a corps of engineers. Corps of Engineers does not want to be here. They do not want to do our stuff. Because what happens, we do our planning and then they get in and try to do planning. So that's what's slowing your project up. That's what's slowing. (04:55–05:00)

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Asserts that the Corps of Engineers is reluctant to be involved in VA projects.

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