You've said you are firing 83,000 people. If you fire the people who have been hired in the last five years, you will be firing physicians, nurses, surgeons, counselors, workers who are frontline. You cannot slash and trash the VA without eliminating those essential positions which provide access and availability of health care. It simply cannot be done. And you may give us a lot of verbiage here, but you're not giving us facts. And facts are essential to accountability. (04:30–04:42)
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Asserts that reducing the VA workforce would eliminate essential healthcare positions.
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