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

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By Jack Phillips
November 11, 2019
Updated: November 11, 2019

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

In a press conference on Nov. 8, Wilkie said, “The standard is, if you don’t live up to your oath if you don’t 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.

“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 reported in 2014 that at least 19 veterans died in VA hospitals in 2010 and 2011 due to delays in diagnosis and treatment. It also reported that in the same year, 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.

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

Speaking about about Veterans Affairs during an October speech in Florida, President Donald Trump said: “Do you remember all of the bad stories that used to be about the VA? Now you don’t see that because they have accountability. We can fire bad people. We fired a tremendous number of really bad people that should’ve been fired years ago. I don’t like firing people, but I like firing people that don’t treat our vets great, that aren’t doing their job.”

In 2018, the president dismissed former VA Secretary David Shulkin after an inspector general report stated that he had engaged in wasteful and unethical actions. According to the Military Times, Shulkin was the only holdover from former President Barack Obama’s administration who also served in Trump’s Cabinet, having previously served as VA undersecretary for health from 2015 to 2017.

In the Nov. 8 speech, Wilkie also praised Trump for giving his agency the largest budget in its history. “This puts veterans at the center of their health care decisions, not the institutional prerogatives of VA, but veterans,” he said.


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