The Veterans Health Administration is marking its 75th year. Now that Denis McDonough is confirmed as the new veterans affairs secretary, what will his overseers on Capitol Hill be most concerned with? For some answers, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Montana’s Jon Tester (D-Mont.).
Tom Temin: Senator, good to have you on.
Jon Tester: Tom. Thank you.
Tom Temin: Alright so, we do have a confirmed VA
secretary now and you are now the new chairman of the committee in the Senate.
What are your expectations writ large for VA in the next couple of years?
Jon Tester: Well, I think first of all, it’s
good to have Denis McDonough as secretary of the VA. He’ll be a point of
contact that everybody can use in Congress, they’re able to make sure that the
VA does the best job possible of getting the vaccines and getting them in the
arms of the veterans around this country. I think that’s really critically
important. They’ve done a good job so far. But there has been a holdup in the
amount of vaccines as has been across the country.
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