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Doug Collins: “No one that is taking care of our veterans in our health…”

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

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Secretary Doug Collins answers questions about potential layoffs at Department of Veterans Affairs

Published | Video Starts at 02:30

When you're looking to make these potential cuts. How do you make that distinction? Who stays and who goes? Well, this is really simple. What we're looking at is to make sure that No one that is taking care of our veterans in our health care side, doing our disabilities claim, are going to be touched. Those frontline workers are the people that are actually doing the work, that actually do the forward facing. As we said, putting the veteran first. (02:30–02:37)

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Asserts that frontline VA healthcare and disability claims workers will not be affected by job cuts.

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