{"id":69645,"date":"2017-01-02T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69645"},"modified":"2017-01-02T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:51:34","slug":"two-va-secretary-picks-bail-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69645","title":{"rendered":"Two VA secretary picks bail on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Military Times<\/a>, Florida businessman Luis Quinonez and Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove have removed themselves from consideration as Trump’s candidate to run the troubled Veterans’ Affairs Department.<\/p>\n

Both men had met with the president-elect several times about overseeing the agency, which employs about 365,000 people and has an annual budget nearing $180 billion. Trump announced nominees to lead nearly every other major government department before the end of last year.<\/p>\n

The president-elect has described the current department as broken and vowed to massively expand private care options for veterans, root out waste within veterans programs and restore public confidence in a department still reeling from the 2014 wait times scandal. <\/p>\n

He also promised to enact many of those changes within his first 100 days in office. Transition teams have been laying the groundwork for those reforms for weeks, but it\u2019s unclear how far that work can progress without a new VA secretary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News host Pete Hegseth and former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown remain in consideration for the post. Miltary Times also says that “Multiple groups” have endorsed keeping Bob McDonald on the job after the Obama Administration turns out the lights. The only groups that I’ve heard express that opinion are IAVA and VoteVets – two organizations that are more concerned with liberal politics than anything that could help veterans.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that the search for a secretary is so difficult is because the agency is not going to change from one that supports it’s employees at the expense of their clientele. No one who expects to be successful will want to wade into that morass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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