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Ruben Gallego: “The first initial plan was they were going to fire, get rid…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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ABC15 one-on-one interview with Senator Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 00:29

Do you believe that? And in visiting this, the Phoenix VA here, what are they telling you how the rifts have impacted the mission here? Sure. So The first initial plan was they were going to fire, get rid of 83,000 people [at the VA]. Now they're saying we're no longer doing that. We're going by attrition. We're going to basically get to 30,000 cuts. My fear and what I'm seeing is that that's still happening. (00:29–00:35)

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Asserts that the initial VA plan was to cut 83,000 jobs.

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