{"id":69342,"date":"2016-12-10T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69342"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:26:19","slug":"military-times-veterans-groups-push-to-keep-mcdonald-at-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69342","title":{"rendered":"Military Times: Veterans groups push to keep McDonald at VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Shane at the Military Times writes that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/mcdonald-trump-va-secretary-push\">Veterans groups push Trump to keep VA Sec McDonald<\/a>&#8220;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Veterans groups are pushing President-elect Donald Trump to keep current VA Secretary Bob McDonald on into the next administration, calling his transformation efforts critical to the future of the department. <\/p>\n<p>Numerous prominent veterans organizations have voiced support for McDonald in recent weeks, but the push intensified Friday during a meeting with key community leaders and Trump administration officials, according to sources involved in the event. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s name was offered as the preferred candidate among rumored names, and the most likely to get widespread support from veterans groups. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who are these veterans groups, Leo? The only group that he names in the article is Concerned Veterans for America and they&#8217;re solidly against retaining McDonald as secretary. In fact one of their founders has been named as possible replacement for McDonald. While I&#8217;ll agree that McDonald is a better choice than Shinseki, Shinseki set the bar pretty low. But, McDonald is unable to break the back of the culture at the VA which values employees more than their clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Shane at the Military Times writes that &#8220;Veterans groups push Trump to keep VA Sec &hellip; <a title=\"Military Times: Veterans groups push to keep McDonald at VA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69342\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military Times: Veterans groups push to keep McDonald at VA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}