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Doug Collins: “We're capped at our ologist issue at the top end. If you…”

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

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Wasserman Schultz Presses Doug Collins On Rehiring VA Positions Lost To DOGE Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 04:28

This is a good news story. I've said this over and over again. I appreciate you bringing up the ologist problem. That's what I call it. It's the ologist problem. They're just. We're capped at our ologist issue at the top end. If you don't know this, we can't hire more than the president's salary. So which puts us in an ologist problem, especially with anesthesiologist, cardiothoracic, you know, all these folks. So that's still an issue. It's going to be an issue until we can get it resolved in some ways. (04:28–04:35)

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