Tammy Baldwin: “Trump ordered 80,000 people to be fired at the VA.”

“I held a roundtable earlier this year with employees at the va, and they all recall a Clinton era restructuring where it was planful and they realized where they needed to cut and not what this administration has been doing. When Trump ordered 80,000 people to be fired at the VA. that wasn't a planful reduction in force. That was scattershot. It was chaos. And we owe more to our veterans than something like that. As to the current shutdown, how do you see this ending?” (07:53–07:58)

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