“In the wake of internal turmoil among political appointees at the Veterans Affairs Department, Secretary David Shulkin has told the agency he wants a clean start from the high-level members of his team, and anyone who doesn’t want to pursue the VA agenda should leave.”
“I have very little tolerance for people who aren’t willing to focus on moving forward, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” Shulkin told reporters Tuesday morning at the American Legion’s annual conference in Washington. “I’ve made it clear that there’s only one agenda in the department and that is to get back on track, and anybody who doesn’t want to do that shouldn’t be in the VA.”
“Shulkin wouldn’t say whether there were plans to fire top-level VA officials in the coming days or weeks. And though he said he wasn’t specifically looking for instances of “subversion” or beginning individual investigations, Shulkin said he knew who within his team had VA’s best interests at heart.”
“I suspect some people right now are making decisions about whether they want to be part of this team or not…” Read the full article here.
Source: Shulkin: ‘There’s one agenda … and anyone who doesn’t want to do that shouldn’t be in the VA’ – By Nicole Ogrysko, February 27, 2018. Federal News Radio.
