The irony in your effort to shortchange the department you lead is that the VA's patient wait time performance often exceeds the department's goals while outperforming simultaneously the community care providers. Yet you propose to fund 12,500 fewer full time equivalent employees than your department requests in fiscal year in 2026. I have yet to see a meaningful cost analysis for your department's rise initiative. And Assistant Secretary, topping your denials of seeking privatization Privatization rings hollow with me because you … (08:17–08:26)
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