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Doug Collins: “We have tried to piecemeal stuff, place it out, and we'd…”

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

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'It's Unconscionable': Veronica Escobar Presses Doug Collins On Cost Of VA Projects

Published | Video Starts at 03:23

Construction at the VA is abysmal. It is awful. It's terrible. I can't come up with my thesaurus, runs out of words. And the reason is, is because over the years, We have tried to piecemeal stuff, place it out, and we'd give 200 million here, 200 million here, 200 million here, and at the end of the day, we got a 15-year project that costs 1.6 billion. Example. You know, we're so. We. One of the things I did was change that. I said, let's look for a major, like hospital corruption, which yours is ongoing, which, by the way, is about 49% completed. (03:23–03:40)

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Asserts that piecemeal funding leads to extended project timelines and increased costs.

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