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Donald Trump Relieved More Than 8,000 Veterans Affairs Employees Since He Took Office: Secretary

President Donald Trump has relieved more than 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees for failing their dut..

President Donald Trump has relieved more than 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees for failing their duties since they took office, said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

In a press conference, Wilkie said that “the standard is if you dont live up to your oath if you dont live up to the standards that our veterans expect, that you will be asked to leave,” according to a White House transcript.

Hailing the Trump-led development, he said, “This is a transformational moment in our history.”

He elaborated, “We have relieved over 8,000 employees of their duty at VA … We have relieved people as high as network directors to people at the other end of our employee chain. After the scandals of Phoenix, the scandals of 2014 and 2015, this is, I think, one of the strongest statements that we can make: that it is a new day at VA.

A series of incidents rocked the Veterans Affairs agency in recent years. Among other scandals, CNN in 2014 reported that at least 19 veterans died in VA hospitals in 2010 and 2011 due to delays in diagnosis and treatment. It also reported the same year that 40 veterans died while waiting for appointments to see a doctor at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

The reports of veterans not getting adequate health care triggered an Obama administration investigation in Phoenix.

The VAs Austin Outpatient Clinic in Texas in a file photo. (Google Street View)

Wilkie noted that VA employees were removed for not performing their duties to the proper standards.

Trump remarked about Veterans Affairs during an October speech in Florida.

“Do you remember all of the bad stories that used to be about the VA?” he asked, according to a transcript. “Now you dont see that because they haRead More – Source

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