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Government Executive | Biden signals he wants to expand VA's footprint, misses deadline to nominate commissioners to review it
The commission process "cannot be made into an effort to blindly close facilities or scale back services for veterans," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said on Wednesday. "Under Secretary McDonough, I don't think that will happen."
Darin Selnick, who worked for more than two years in the Trump administration—first in the White House as a VA adviser, where he helped usher through the MISSION Act and the AIR Commission, and later at VA itself—generally agreed with Tester.
"It's not about closing," Selnick said. "The recommendations have to be focused on: how do you provide the best health care possible for veterans and what does that look like?" |
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